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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



... my stock landed! Come up here, Mr. Thurston! Now! Right away! Fifty cayuses of | mine eating their heads off in this dirty kennel of yours, and it'll be a sick time you'll have if you don't hustle them ashore as fast as God'll let you! I'm losing a thousand dollars a day, and I won't stand it! Do you hear? I won't stand it! You've robbed me right and left from the time you cleared dock in Seattle, and ...
— A Daughter of the Snows • Jack London
... happening to dogs that day. The truth was, that policemen were shooting all dogs found that were without a collar and a license, and every now and then a bang and a howl somewhere would stop Satan in his tracks. At a little yellow house on the edge of town he saw half a dozen strange dogs in a kennel, and every now and then a negro would lead a new one up to the house and deliver him to a big man at the door, who, in return, would drop something into the negro's hand. While Satan waited, the old drunkard came ...
— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)
... the whole world I hardly get to my spoken human word any other word of response that is authentically human. God help us, this is growing a very lonely place, this distracted dog-kennel of ...
— Home Life of Great Authors • Hattie Tyng Griswold
... Starlight Tom had made his escape in the night; how he had got out of the loft, no one could tell: the Devil, they think, must have assisted him. Old Christy was so mortified that he would not show his face, but had shut himself up in his stronghold at the dog-kennel, and would not be spoken with. What has particularly relieved the Squire, is, that there is very little likelihood of the culprit's being retaken, having gone off on one of the old ...
— Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists • Washington Irving
... Indeed, indeed, after spending this short time in your company, I can never endure to live with Tom Skip-an'-jump and Mrs. Barebones and that horrid Robber Grim. If you refuse to help me I will go straight to Growler's kennel. When he has worried me to death, won't you be sorry you drove me to such a fate? Dear, dear Mrs. Velvetpaw, your face is kinder than your words. Oh, pity the sorrows ...
— Miss Elliot's Girls • Mrs Mary Spring Corning


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