Kennel

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kennel \Ken"nel\, n. [See {Channel}, {Canal}.]
     The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a
     gutter; also, a puddle. --Bp. Hall.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Kennel \Ken"nel\, n. [OE. kenel, (assumed) OF. kenil, F. chenil,
     LL. canile, fr. L. canis a dog. Cf. {Canine}.]
     1. A house for a dog or for dogs, or for a pack of hounds.
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              A dog sure, if he could speak, had wit enough to
              describe his kennel.                  --Sir P.
                                                    Sidney.
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     2. A pack of hounds, or a collection of dogs. --Shak.
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     3. The hole of a fox or other beast; a haunt.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kennel \Ken"nel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Kenneled}or {Kennelled};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Kennelling}.]
     To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
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           The dog kenneled in a hollow tree.       --L'Estrange.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kennel \Ken"nel\, v. t.
     To put or keep in a kennel. --Thomson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  kennel
       n : outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog [syn: {doghouse},
            {dog house}]
       v : put up in a kennel; "kennel a dog"
       [also: {kennelling}, {kennelled}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  101 Moby Thesaurus words for "kennel":
     aqueduct, army, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bound, box in,
     bunch, cage, canal, canalization, cattery, chamber, channel,
     cloaca, cloaca maxima, close in, colony, compass, contain, coop,
     coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, corral, crimp, cut, dike,
     ditch, dog pound, doghouse, drain, drift, drive, drove, encircle,
     enclose, encompass, enshrine, entrenchment, fence in, flock, fosse,
     gam, gang, goffer, gutter, ha-ha, headchute, hedge in, hem in,
     herd, host, house in, impound, imprison, incarcerate, include,
     jail, leaguer, litter, mew, mew up, moat, pack, pen, pen in,
     piscina, pleat, pocket, pod, pound, pride, quarantine, rail in,
     school, scupper, sewer, shoal, shrine, shut in, shut up, sink,
     skulk, sloth, sluice, sough, stable, sump, sunk fence, surround,
     trench, trip, troop, trough, wall in, wrap, yard, yard up