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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