Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
HOVELLED
HOVEL
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
hovelled
simple past tense and past participle of hovel
Source: Wiktionary
HOVEL
Hov"el, n. Etym: [OE. hovel, hovil, prob. a dim. fr. AS. hof house; akin to D. & G. hof court, yard, Icel. hof temple; cf. Prov. E. hove to take shelter, heuf shelter, home.]
1. An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather. Brande & C.
2. A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
3. (Porcelain Manuf.)
Definition: A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped. Knight.
Hov"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hoveled or Hovelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Hoveling or Hovelling.]
Definition: To put in a hovel; to shelter. To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlon. Shak. The poor are hoveled and hustled together. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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