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Howel vs Hovel - What's the difference?

howel | hovel |

In lang=en terms the difference between howel and hovel

is that howel is to smooth; to plane while hovel is to put in a hovel; to shelter.

As nouns the difference between howel and hovel

is that howel is a tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering their work, especially the inside of casks while hovel is an open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc, from the weather.

As verbs the difference between howel and hovel

is that howel is to smooth; to plane while hovel is to put in a hovel; to shelter.

howel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering their work, especially the inside of casks.

    • Verb

  • To smooth; to plane.
    • to howel a cask
    (Webster 1913)

    hovel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
  • A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
    • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
  • In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.

    • Verb

  • To put in a hovel; to shelter.
  • * Shakespeare
    • To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn.
  • *
    • The poor are hovelled and hustled together.