Meaning of Kennel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A house or shelter for a dog.
3. The gutter at the edge of a street; a surface drain.
   obsolete
4. A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
5. A puddle.
   obsolete
6. The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
   UK, collective
7. The hole of a fox or other animal.

Equivalents

Examples

“– 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.”

“The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.”

“She raises registered Dalmatians at her kennel.”

“A little herd of England's timorous deer, / Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!”

“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.”

“Ay, kennel, puddle, sink, whose filth and dirt / Troubles the silver spring where England drinks […].”

“[A] scavenger working in the kennel”

“Soon ſhall the Kennels ſvvell vvith rapid Streams, / And ruſh in muddy Torrents to the Thames.”

“[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 […].”

“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.”

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