Hut vs Hovel - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between hut and hovel

is that hut is a small wooden shed while hovel is an open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.

As verbs the difference between hut and hovel

is that hut is to put into a hut while hovel is to put in a hovel; to shelter.

hut

English

Noun

(en noun)

a small wooden shed

a primitive dwelling

Verb

(hutt)

(rare, archaic, transitive) to put into a hut

to hut troops in winter quarters

(rare, archaic, intransitive) to take shelter in a hut

* Washington Irving

The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown.

Anagrams

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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.

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, 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.