kennel

From Anglo-Norman kenil, from an Old Northern French variant of Old French chenil (whence modern French chenil), from Vulgar Latin *canile, ultimately from Latin canis (“dog”), hence from Latin canēs, from Proto-Italic *kō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛnəl/
• Rhymes: -ɛnəl

kennel (plural kennels)

1. A house or shelter for a dog.

   – We want to look at the dog kennels.
   – That's the pet department, second floor.

2. A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.

   The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.

   She raises registered Dalmatians at her kennel.

3. (Britain, collective) The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
   • 1591, Shakespeare, William, Henry VI, Part 1, Act 4, Scene 2:

     A little herd of England's timorous deer, / Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. IX, Working Aristocracy

     A world of mere Patent-Digesters will soon have nothing to digest: such world ends, and by Law of Nature must end, in ‘over-population;’ in howling universal famine, ‘impossibility,’ and suicidal madness, as of endless dog-kennels run rabid.

4. The hole of a fox or other animal.

• (shelter for a dog): doghouse (US)
• (boarding facility for dogs): pound, shelter
• (collective noun for dogs): pack
• (hole of a fox): burrow, den

• ken (“house”)

kennel (third-person singular simple present kennels, present participle kenneling or kennelling, simple past and past participle kenneled or kennelled)

1. (transitive) To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).

   While we're away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.

2. (intransitive) To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
   • c. 1603–1606, Shakespeare, William, King Lear, Act 1, Scene 4:

     Truth's a dog must to kennel;

   • 1669, L'Estrange, Sir Roger, Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists‎, Fable CXLIII: A Dog and a Cock upon a Journey, page 130:

     The Dog Kennell'd in the Body of a Hollow Tree, and the Cock Roosted at night upon the Boughs.

• unkennel

A kennel or gutter.

From Middle English canel, from Old French canel, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”), from Latin canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Cognate with English channel, canal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛnəl/
• Rhymes: -ɛnəl

kennel (plural kennels)

1. (obsolete) A gutter at the edge of a street; an open sewer.
   • 1591, Shakespeare, William, Henry VI, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 1:

     Ay, kennel, puddle, sink, whose filth and dirt / Troubles the silver spring where England drinks;

   • 1716, Gay, John, Trivia: Or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London, Book I:

     "Soon shall the Kennels swell with rapid Streams, / And rush in muddy Torrents to the Thames."

   • 1899, Guy Boothby, Pharos the Egyptian

     A biting wind whistled through the streets, the pavements were dotted with umbrella-laden figures, the kennels ran like mill-sluices, while the roads were only a succession of lamp-lit puddles through which the wheeled traffic splashed continuously.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hall to this entry?)

2. (obsolete) A puddle.

• (gutter): drain, gutter, trough

• (gutter): conduit

• Kennel in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Borrowed from English kennel, from Anglo-Norman kenil, from Old French chenil, from Vulgar Latin *canile.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.nəl/

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• Hyphenation: ken‧nel

kennel m (plural kennels, diminutive kenneltje n)

1. kennel

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• hondenkennel

< Vulgar Latin *canile via Germanic languages, ultimately from Latin canis

kennel

1. kennel (facility at which dogs are reared or boarded)

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