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Kennel   /kˈɛnəl/   Listen
noun
Kennel  n.  The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle.


Kennel  n.  
1.
A house for a dog or for dogs, or for a pack of hounds. "A dog sure, if he could speak, had wit enough to describe his kennel."
2.
A pack of hounds, or a collection of dogs.
3.
The hole of a fox or other beast; a haunt.


verb
Kennel  v. t.  To put or keep in a kennel.


Kennel  v. i.  (past & past part. kenneled or kennelled; pres. part. kennelling)  To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox. "The dog kenneled in a hollow tree."





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"Kennel" Quotes from Famous Books



... yourself trodden down in the very kennel, are you not sorry for what you have done? Do you not repent having occasioned the poor ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott
... which was about as big as a dog kennel, and crawled into it early, in order to be shielded from the winds, which grew keen as sword blades as the sun sank behind the western mountains. The sky was like November, and I wondered where Burton was encamped. I would ...
— The Trail of the Goldseekers - A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse • Hamlin Garland
... the opinion of Gildas, a modification of that of Gregory, it was a case of non Angli sed diaboli. The modern Teutonist is "disappointed" that the contemporary authority saw nothing in his Teutons except wolves, dogs, and whelps from the kennel of barbarism. But it is at least faintly tenable that there was nothing else to ...
— A Short History of England • G. K. Chesterton
... high and low, called and cried, but all in vain, and was about to sit down in despair, when Sancho made a bolt into his new kennel and brought out a shoe with a foot in it, while a doleful squeal came ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, October 1878, No. 12 • Various
... around us. I saw men generous to their kind, industrious and brave, beloved by their fellows; and I have seen these same men drink and dance and give themselves to coarse, rough play like young dogs in a kennel. Yet, too, I have seen dark things done in drink—the cheerful made morose, the gentle violent. What was the temptation? What the secret? Was it but the low craving of the flesh, or was it some primitive unrest, or craving of the soul, which, clouded and baffled by time and ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker


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