What's the difference between hovel and shovel?

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.

Shovel


Definition:

  • (v. t.) An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances.
  • (v. t.) To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.
  • (v. t.) To gather up as with a shovel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
  • (2) About 4,000 government-issued shovels were handed out in several main piazzas to Romans trying to clear their streets before a freeze forecast for Sunday evening.
  • (3) The frequencies of shovelling in the Southern Cook (23%) were quite similar at the medium level (S + S.S), to those in other Polynesian groups as well as in the Micronesian groups.
  • (4) The occurrence of invaginations in shovel-shaped incisors was 11 per cent.
  • (5) Saunders also attacked a branch of Tesco with a shovel and handed out looted property to other rioters.
  • (6) God grounds to Hairston, who can't field it cleanly and tries to shovel the ball to second.
  • (7) We’re out there one night ’til 3am shoveling dirt on the fire.
  • (8) Upper anterior teeth showed high frequency of shovel form; upper lateral incisors showed less tendency of regression.
  • (9) Subjects were 184 power shovel operators, 127 bulldozer operators, 44 forklift operators as operator groups, and 44 office workers as a control.
  • (10) People were being told to "get a shovel or stay at home", he said.
  • (11) What Victoria gains from shovelling the best part of $58m of taxpayers’ money into the touring F1 circus goes to the heart of the debate over whether the race should continue at Albert Park.
  • (12) deaths were increased for 8 days after a snowstorm, suggesting that the effect was related to activities such as snow shovelling rather than the storm itself.
  • (13) Benaglio manages to hook the ball clear, in a clumsy fashion, as though he's waving a shovel about.
  • (14) Percent peak treadmill oxygen consumption and heart rate with shoveling in the three groups ranged from 60% to 68% and 75% to 78%, respectively.
  • (15) There is even a picturesque worker standing at ease, quietly breast-feeding his shovel.
  • (16) c) Compared with the Japanese, their teeth were characterized by a smaller mesiodistal crown-diameter (especially on the upper first molar), higher frequency of shovel-shape and lower frequency of Carabelli's tuberculum.
  • (17) Older workers may feel compelled to shovel yet more cash into their workplace additional voluntary contribution (AVC) schemes.
  • (18) It's like living in New England and being pro-"having to shovel your car out of the snow".
  • (19) Professor Ian Brown, associate director of Oxford University’s Cyber Security Centre, says given the past attacks on Iran, it’s highly likely to be shovelling vast sums into offensive technologies.
  • (20) The incidences of double shovelling were similar to those of the Guamese, but lower than those of the Hawaiians.