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kennel en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɛn.əl/
• [ˈkʰɛn.əl] ~ [ˈkʰɛn.l̩]
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

PIE word *ḱwṓ From Middle English kenel, kenell, borrowed from Anglo-Norman *kenil, northern variant of Old French chenil, from Vulgar Latin *canīle, from Latin canis.

Meanings

1. A house or shelter for a dog.
   • – We want to look at the dog kennels. – That's the pet department, second floor.
   • A fals double tunge is more fiers and fell Then Cerberus the cur couching in the kenel of hel; Wherof hereafter, I thinke for to write, Of fals double tunges in the diſpite. c. 1515-1516, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c., published 1568:
2. A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
   • She raises registered Dalmatians at her kennel.
   • The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.
3. (UK, collective) A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded. ▸ The dogs kept at a dog-boarding facility; a pack of hounds.
   • A little herd of England's timorous deer, / Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs! 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, act 4, scene 2:
   • 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. 1843, Thomas Carlyle, “IX: Working Aristocracy”, in Past and Present, book 3:
4. The hole of a fox or other animal.

Forms

Deriveds

kennel-raker · kennel council · kennelwoman · kennel raker · kennelman · kennel club · skip-kennel · kennelmate · enkennel · ken · kennelmaid · kennellike · kennelful · kennel coal · kennel cough · kennel maid

Descendants

kennel · kennel

Synonyms

pack · shelter · shelter · doghouse · pound · den · burrow · pound

Translations (102)

ka ქოხმახი (shelter) · de Zwinger (facility) · de Hundezucht (facility) · de Hundehütte (shelter) · de Hundezwinger (shelter) · no hundehus (shelter) · ko 개집 (shelter) · el σκυλόσπιτο (shelter) · ur تازی خانہ (shelter) · fi kolo (hole of an animal) · eo hundejo (shelter) · ga conchró coinneála (facility) · sh štenara (shelter) · ms رومه اسو (shelter) · sh пасја кућица (shelter) · aht łicʼae konaxeʼ (shelter) · bg дупка (hole of an animal) · fr niche (shelter) · sv hundkoja (shelter) · nrf câniche (shelter) · mk кучкарник (shelter) · sh псећа кућица (shelter) · fi koirankoppi (shelter) · ms rumah asu (shelter) · de Hundezwinger (facility) · ru пса́рня (facility) · sh pasja kućica (shelter) · sh psetarnik (facility) · de Zwinger (shelter) · vo dogadom (shelter) · be бу́дка (shelter) · hu kutyaház (shelter) · nl hondenhok (shelter) · ar وِجَار (shelter) · sh псетарник (facility) · ms رومه انجيڠ (shelter) · ru конура́ (shelter) · oc canigon (shelter) · fi koiratarha (facility) · es covacha (facility) · fi kennel (facility) · el κυνοτροφείο (facility) · nl kennel (shelter) · uk кону́ра (shelter) · nrf niche (shelter) · es perrera (shelter) · da hundehus (shelter) · ga conairt (pack of hounds) · ka საძაღლე (shelter) · sh штенара (shelter) · de Hundeheim (facility) · es canil (shelter) · hu ebtenyészet (facility) · ru бу́дка (shelter) · es caseta (shelter) · eo hundujo (shelter) · ja 犬小屋 (shelter) · fi koiralauma (pack of hounds) · nv łééchąąʼí bighan (shelter) · it canile (facility) · es perrera (facility) · pt canil (shelter) · eo hundejo (facility) · vo dogibridöp (facility) · mk кучкарник (facility) · es transportín (shelter) · tr köpek kulübesi (shelter) · de Hundeasyl (facility) · pt casota (shelter) · pdt Hunjsklotje (shelter) · it canile (shelter) · ms rumah anjing (shelter) · pt canil (facility) · hu kutyatenyészet (facility) · is hundakofi (shelter) · ga conchró (shelter) · be пся́рня (facility) · ms tempat perlindungan anjing (facility) · ang hunda hūs (shelter) · uk бу́да (shelter) · fr chenil (facility) · uk пса́рня (facility) · fa سگدانی (shelter) · be сабака́рня (facility) · hu kutyaól (shelter) · pt casinha de cachorro (shelter) · sh pseća kućica (shelter) · uk халабу́да (shelter) · bg кучешка колиба (shelter) · cmn 狗屋 (shelter) · gl canil (shelter) · eu txakurtegi (shelter) · vo dogadomil (shelter) · he מְלוּנָה (shelter) · my ခွေးအိမ် (shelter) · pl buda (shelter) · vo dogalecek (shelter) · ga cró madra (shelter) · es cucha (shelter) · ar بَيْت اَلْكَلْب (shelter) · it cuccia (shelter) · ka ქოხი (shelter)

kennel en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɛn.əl/
• [ˈkʰɛn.əl] ~ [ˈkʰɛn.l̩]
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

PIE word *ḱwṓ From Middle English kenel, kenell, borrowed from Anglo-Norman *kenil, northern variant of Old French chenil, from Vulgar Latin *canīle, from Latin canis.

Meanings

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.
   • Truth's a dog must to kennel; c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 1, scene 4:
   • The Dog Kennell'd in the Body of a Hollow Tree, and the Cock Roosted at night upon the Boughs. 1669, Sir Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, Fable CXLIII: A Dog and a Cock upon a Journey, page 130:
   • Below to thy nightly grave ; where such as ye sleep between shrouds, to use ye to the filling one at last. — Down, dog, and kennel!" 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 29, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 139:
3. (transitive) To drive (a fox) to covert in its hole.
   • This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set. 1819, John Mayer, The Sportsman's Directory, or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion:

Forms

Deriveds

unkennel

kennel en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɛn.əl/
• [ˈkʰɛn.əl] ~ [ˈkʰɛn.l̩]
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) The gutter at the edge of a street; a surface drain.
   • Ay, kennel, puddle, sink, whose filth and dirt / Troubles the silver spring where England drinks […]. 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
   • 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. 1899, Guy Boothby, Pharos the Egyptian:
   • Soon ſhall the Kennels ſvvell vvith rapid Streams, / And ruſh in muddy Torrents to the Thames. [1716], [John] Gay, “Book I. Of the Implements for Walking the Streets, and Signs of the Weather”, in Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London, London: […] Bernard Lintott, […], →OCLC, page 11:
   • [A] scavenger working in the kennel 1630, Ios. Exon. [i.e., Joseph Hall of Exeter], edited by R[obert] H[all], Occasionall Meditations, London: […] [Benjamin Alsop and T. Fawcet?] for Nath[aniel] Butter, →OCLC:
   • [A] chair happening to pass, he laid hold of the opportunity, and by an exertion of his muscles pitched upon the top of the carriage, which was immediately overturned in the kennel […]. 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume IV, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 102:
2. (obsolete) A puddle.

Forms

Hypernyms

conduit

Synonyms

trough

Translations (2)

hi नाली (A gutter at the edge of a street) · bg канавка (A gutter at the edge of a street)