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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



... Out of your kennel, Towzer! What's the use of two eyes? It's one more than you want. Hop! I say, Clarisse, look at it rolling over the carpet! Mind Daubrecq's eye! Be careful with ...
— The Crystal Stopper • Maurice LeBlanc

... garden, beneath the dark shadows of the trees, with a slow, mechanical movement, like that of a somnambulist, and proceeded to the kennel, where the great Danish hounds and the colossus of the Himalayas were baying, ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... Swift Writing, beside a fire, to one he loved,— Beautiful Catherine Barton, once the light Of Newton's house, and his half-sister's child? Yes, Catherine Barton, I am brave enough To face this pale, unhappy, wistful ghost Of our departed friendship. It was I Savage and mad, a snarling kennel of sins, "Your Holiness," as you called me, with that smile Which even your ghost would quietly turn on me— Who raised it up. It has no terrors, dear. And I shall never lay it while I live. You write to me. You think ...
— Watchers of the Sky • Alfred Noyes

... themselves, reckoning the French for nothing save the ministers of their pleasures, et improbi turba impia vici. If, in the midst of these brilliant saturnalia, the pares were to rise, and another Commune spring from the kennel to the day, how many of the lords of the Philistines would be buried under the ruins of the temple of Dagon? But to revert to Germany, or, ...
— Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. - In Two Volumes. VOL. II. • John Knox Laughton

... sting: about her middle round A cry of Hell Hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous Peal: yet, when they list, would creep, If aught disturb'd thir noyse, into her woomb, And kennel there, yet there still bark'd and howl'd Within unseen. Farr less abhorrd then these Vex'd Scylla bathing in the Sea that parts 660 Calabria from the hoarce Trinacrian shore: Nor uglier follow the Night-Hag, when call'd In secret, riding through the Air she comes Lur'd with the smell of ...
— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton


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