Definition of "hovelled" [hovelled]

• Simple past tense and past participle of hovel. (verb)

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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."
• "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.""
• "When the poor are hovelled and hustled together, each sex, like swine,"