kennel
/ˈkɛn.əl/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms kennels kenneling kennelling kenneled kennelled
- noun A house or shelter for a dog. “– We want to look at the dog kennels. – That's the pet department, second floor.”
- noun A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded. “The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.”
- noun (UK, collective) The dogs kept at a dog-boarding facility; a pack of hounds.
- noun The hole of a fox or other animal.
- verb (transitive) To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal). “While we're away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.”
- verb (intransitive) To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
- verb (transitive) To drive (a fox) to covert in its hole.
- noun The gutter at the edge of a street; a surface drain.
- noun A puddle.
- proper noun A surname.
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Etymology
From Middle English kenel, kenell, borrowed from Anglo-Norman *kenil, northern variant of Old French chenil, from Vulgar Latin *canīle, from Latin canis.
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.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle. Bp. Hall.
- noun A house for a dog or for dogs, or for a pack of hounds.
- noun A pack of hounds, or a collection of dogs. Shak.
- verb To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox. The dog kenneled in a hollow tree. L'Estrange.
Etymology [See Channel, Canal.]
Etymology [OE.kenel, (assumed) OF. kenil, F. chenil, LL. canile, fr. L. canis a dog. Cf. Canine.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “kennel”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details