hovelling

Etymology

From hovel + -ing.

hovelling means 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. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

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 all shut, or the foul air brought up by the drain-flue may be caught up by the down-draught of its nei”