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hoveler

hoveler is the alternative form of hoveller.

Meaning of hoveller

Noun

hoveller (plural hovellers)

  1. (UK, dialectal) One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman.
    • How it was that the fishermen, and hovellers, and smugglers got an inkling of what we were about, I don't know.1839, George Payne Rainsford James, Charles Tyrrell: Or, The Bitter Blood
  2. A small boat used on the coast.

Forms of hoveler

pluralhovelers

Questions about hoveler

What is hoveler the alternative form of?
Hoveler is the alternative form of hoveller.

Words near hoveler in the dictionary

  1. hove into view
  2. hove to
  3. hoved
  4. hovel
  5. hoveled
  6. hoveler
  7. hovelers
  8. hoveling
  9. hovelled
  10. hoveller
  11. hovellers

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