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Definition of Kennel

1. Verb. Put up in a kennel. "They kennel the animals"; "Kennel a dog"

Definition of Kennel

1. n. The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle.

2. n. A house for a dog or for dogs, or for a pack of hounds.

3. v. i. To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.

4. v. t. To put or keep in a kennel.

Definition of Kennel

1. Noun. A house or shelter for a dog. ¹

2. Noun. A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded. ¹

3. Noun. (U.K.) The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds. ¹

4. Verb. To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal). ¹

5. Noun. A gutter at the edge of a street. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Kennel

1. to keep in a shelter for dogs [v -NELED, -NELING, -NELS or -NELLED, -NELLING, -NELS]

Medical Definition of Kennel

1. To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox. "The dog kenneled in a hollow tree." (L'Estrange) Origin: Kenneled or Kennelled; Kennelling. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kennel

Literary usage of Kennel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Outing (1893)
"April 4 to 7—New England kennel Club's bench show, March 21, 22, 23 anil 24—Elmira kennel Club's first annual bench show, Elmira, NV March 21, 22, ..."

2. Frank Forester's Field Sports of the United States and British Provinces of by Henry William Herbert (1849)
"kennel MANAGEMENT. The first point in kennel management is the kennel itself, and, for a pei son keeping several dogs, the best and most suitable to this ..."

3. Sportby C. M. van Stockum by C. M. van Stockum (1914)
"... 5671 kennel-diseases, 5701 kennel, encyclopedia, 5575 kennel-gazelle, 5714 I'.. kennel-gazelle, American, 5713 (P.) kennel, handbook, 5668 kennel-Mews. ..."

4. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1830)
"Let me here most earnestly repeat, that in Distemper, and indeed in every other malady of the kennel, (though in Distemper most particularly and ..."

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