cabin vs hovel

cabin

verb
  • To place in a cabin or other small space. 

  • To limit the scope of. 

noun
  • The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service. 

  • A small room; an enclosed place. 

  • A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it. 

  • The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping. 

  • A signal box. 

  • The passenger area of an airplane. 

  • A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people. 

  • A private room on a ship. 

  • A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional. 

hovel

verb
  • To put in a hovel; to shelter. 

  • 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. 

noun
  • An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather. 

  • A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut. 

  • In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped. 

How often have the words cabin and hovel occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )