hoveling

Verb

hovel (third-person singular simple present hovels, present participle (US) hoveling or (UK) hovelling, simple past and past participle (US) hoveled or (UK) hovelled)

1. (transitive) To put in a hovel; to shelter.
   • To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
2. (transitive) To construct a chimney so as to prevent smoking, by making two of the more exposed walls higher than the others, or making an opening on one side near the top.

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Noun

hovelling (uncountable)

1. A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two.
   • It would, perhaps, be proper to make the drain-flue distinct from the chimney-flues where it opens out above, so long as the defective ventilation of buildings in other respects renders the chimney-flue of an apartment the only means of access to it of the outer air when the doors and windows are...1848, William Hosking, A Guide to the Proper Regulation of Buildings in Towns