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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hovel .
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Examples
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In these two tents, a hovelled together community of neighbors who have lost their homes, mothers who have lost their children and children who have lost their parents.
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We had made the blessings of peace a curse, he told us, in those days, "when only the ledger lived, and when only not all men lied; when the poor were hovelled and hustled together, each sex, like swine; when chalk and alum and plaster were sold to the poor for bread, and the spirit of murder worked in the very means of life."
Great Britain and Her Queen Annie E. Keeling
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When the poor are hovelled and hustled together, each sex, like swine,
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