Obs. Meaning uncertain.
(Some commentators explain it as ‘a jakes, privy’; there seems to be no ground for this exc. in the two passages themselves, where ‘hovel’ would suit equally well. But identity with prec. seems quite possible.)
1603. Shaks., Meas. for M., II. ii. 172. Hauing waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the Sanctuary And pitch our euils there? Ibid. (1613), Hen. VIII., II. i. 67. Let ’em looke they glory not in mischiefe Nor build their euils on the graues of great men.
