What's the difference between hovel and howel?

Hovel


Definition:

  • (n.) An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
  • (n.) A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
  • (n.) A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
  • (v. t.) To put in a hovel; to shelter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There, I came to a muddy hovel and made my way down into a damp, dark cave.
  • (2) The scene in the hovel was a little muddled, and it was not until the scene with the flowers that the study of a man seeking in wandering wits a refuge from intolerable reality really came into the round.
  • (3) Nor am I living in a hovel with a dirt floor and no running water,” she said.
  • (4) I recently issued myself with an eviction notice for the end of April to get out of my little hovel – a threat already pushed forward from Christmas.
  • (5) A few kilometres away, outside the town of Azaz, 60-year-old Hamida is living in a concrete hovel with her two grown-up daughters.
  • (6) They would throw together weird hovels, filled with random doors and windows, huge gaps in the walls, bizarre jutting extensions, like nightmarish sets from a German expressionistic horror movie.
  • (7) March 23, 2013 Guardian executive hovel... 3.14am GMT I want a mini snow plough They're whizzing around the playing surface clearing snow at a furious pace.
  • (8) For Waugh, the club consisted of “epileptic royalty from their villas of exile; uncouth peers from crumbling country seats; smooth young men of uncertain tastes from embassies and legations; illiterate lairds from wet granite hovels in the Highlands; ambitious young barristers and Conservative candidates torn from the London season and the indelicate advances of debutantes; all that was most sonorous of name and title”.
  • (9) I walked for another hour and got back to my hovel.
  • (10) • thethirty-ninesteps.co.uk , open daily noon-10pm, noon-11pm Thurs-Sat The Hovelling Boat Inn, Ramsgate The Hovelling Boat, which recently celebrated its first birthday, was named after a pub that existed on the site until 1909.
  • (11) But everyone also does tons of drugs, makes really experimental music, does crazy shit and lives in a hovel with no heating."
  • (12) They would throw together weird hovels, filled with random doors and windows, huge gaps in the walls, bizarre jutting extensions, like nightmarish sets from a German expressionistic horror movie."
  • (13) Photographs in the Amnesty report reveal the filthy insides of Qatar's accommodation for the workers who build their air-conditioned palaces, malls and five-star hotels: dank, windowless hovels, dangerously hot without air-conditioning; primitive dormitories cramming together crowds of men far from their homes and families.
  • (14) I get by.” Squinting across the riverbed Cabrera could see a new neighbour: Sergio Avinia, 42, a recent arrival cleaved from a family in California, waist-deep in a hole, bare-chested and sweating, excavating a hovel with improvised tools.

Howel


Definition:

  • (n.) A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks.
  • (v. t.) To smooth; to plane; as, to howel a cask.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
  • (2) Silver staining (Howell and Black, 1980) was used in light and electron microscopic studies for detecting the localization of argentophilic nuclear proteins in fertilized ova and cleaving mouse embryos.
  • (3) "They are wrong, we are bang on track, everything is on track," Howell said.
  • (4) Howells says that it only takes a small number of Afghans to harbour the terrorists to undermine a large military.
  • (5) Explaining the belated discovery of the FCO-witheld files, Foreign Office minister Lord Howell told parliament his department had "decided to regularise the position of some 2,000 boxes of files it currently holds, mainly from the 1950s and 1960s, which were created by former British administrations overseas.
  • (6) Concerned about growing opposition to Britain's military presence in Afghanistan, underlined by Kim Howells, a former Foreign Office minister, in today's Guardian, the cabinet and defence chiefs are pinning their hopes on training, mentoring, and even partnering the Afghan national police force and army in operations.
  • (7) Anderson (Men's) 10:30 – 12:30 huntergather 11:00 Margaret Howell (Men's) 1 11:30 – 13:00 Kit Neal e 11:30 – 14:30 Christopher Kane (Men's) 12:00 Oliver Spencer 12:30 – 14:00 Fashion East Men's Presentations 12:30 – 14:30 John Smedle y 13:00 Richard James 13:30 – 15:30 Maharishi 14:00 Hackett London 14:30 – 16:00 COMMON 15:00 Jimmy Choo 15:30 – 17:30 Ducham p 16:00 Alexander McQueen (Men's ) 16:30 - 18:30 Pringle of Scotland (Men's) 17:00 James Long 17:00 – 19:00 Solange Azagury-Partridge 17:30 – 19:00 Alex Mullins 18:00 Moschino 19:00 Casely-Hayford Updated at 9.01am BST
  • (8) For the control of a high degree of hypocoagulability the Howell's time is the best guide.
  • (9) Kim Howells, a former Foreign Office minister with responsibility for Afghanistan and current chairman of the parliamentary intelligence and security committee, questions in our newspaper today the central tenet of the government's case for fighting in Afghanistan: that it is the frontline of a war that would otherwise be conducted on British streets.
  • (10) B., H. T. Abelson, D. E. Housman, N. Howell, and A. Varshavsky, 1984, Nature (Lond.
  • (11) Radio 1's Phil Lester and Dan Howell, who made their names on YouTube as Danisnotonfire and AmazingPhil, won the inaugural Golden Headphones award, voted for by listeners.
  • (12) TGN38 is an integral membrane protein previously shown to be predominantly localized to the trans-Golgi network (TGN) of cells by virtue of a signal contained within its cytoplasmic 'tail' [Luzio, Brake, Banting, Howell, Braghetta & Stanley (1990) Biochem.
  • (13) In one of the essays, David Howell criticised the Blackadder model of the conflict (Neil Kinnock's oft-quoted claim that Scargill was "the labour movement's nearest equivalent to a first world war general").
  • (14) Howells also mines the territory of feeling lonely or alienated at a wedding- the ritual in our culture specifically designed to celebrate togetherness - in the show, May I Have the Pleasure?
  • (15) There was a predictable flurry of outrage; the then culture minister Kim Howells, commenting on the exhibition as a whole, scrawled "conceptual bullshit" across a Tate comment card and pinned it to the visitors' wall.
  • (16) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian I found out about the murder from a friend, Ros Howells [now a Labour peer], who was very active in race relations in the Lewisham area and told me about it within days.
  • (17) Support for shale gas Plans for a new nuclear power station at Hinkley in Somerset have also come under fire recently, with the Conservative peer Lord Howell of Guildford warning of rising costs of the “elephantine” project and HSBC criticising the £25bn cost for Hinkley’s new reactors .
  • (18) 5.36am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 2, bottom of 11th So now JP Howell (add your TV joke here) has to face Carlos Beltran who may have saved the game for the Cards earlier by throwing out Mark Ellis at the plate - can he win it here?
  • (19) Pitching coach Rick Honeycutt is out to stall for time as the lefty, J.P. Howell, warms up in the bullpen.
  • (20) The 18 patients with folic acid deficiency had a significantly higher rate of megaloblasts, binucleate erythropoietic precursors, Howell-Jolly bodies, giant myelocytes, and giant metamyelocytes in bone marrow smears than the remaining 23 patients (P less than 0.05).

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