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KENNEL (kennelled, kennelling)
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, kennelling Dictionary entry overview: What does kennel mean?
• KENNEL (noun)
The noun KENNEL has 1 sense:
1. outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog
Familiarity information: KENNEL used as a noun is very rare.
• KENNEL (verb)
The verb KENNEL has 1 sense:
1. put up in a kennel
Familiarity information: KENNEL used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("kennel" is a kind of...):
outbuilding (a building that is subordinate to and separate from a main building)
shelter (protective covering that provides protection from the weather)
Derivation:
kennel (put up in a kennel)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it kennels Past simple: kenneled
/ kennelled Past participle: kenneled
/ kennelled -ing form: kenneling
/ kennelling Sense 1
Meaning:
Put up in a kennel
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Context example:
kennel a dog
Hypernyms (to "kennel" is one way to...):
shelter (provide shelter for)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They kennel the animals
Derivation:
kennel (outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog)
Context examples
This the master horse observed by my behaviour, and therefore sent the Yahoo back to his kennel.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I know thy kennel of Rochecourt.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They vas lyin’ in the kennel three deep all down Tottenham Court road wid their ’ands to their sides just vit to break themselves in two.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Then you think the beast was— Why, Charing Cross station would hardly make a kennel for such a brute!"
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As soon as morning dawned I crept from my kennel, that I might view the adjacent cottage and discover if I could remain in the habitation I had found.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Presently I heard Pilot bark far below, out of his distant kennel in the courtyard: hope revived.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They came and went, resided in the populous kennels, or lived obscurely in the recesses of the house after the fashion of Toots, the Japanese pug, or Ysabel, the Mexican hairless,—strange creatures that rarely put nose out of doors or set foot to ground.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
On the ground-floor is Peggotty's kitchen, opening into a back yard; with a pigeon-house on a pole, in the centre, without any pigeons in it; a great dog-kennel in a corner, without any dog; and a quantity of fowls that look terribly tall to me, walking about, in a menacing and ferocious manner.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
See the foxhound with hanging ears and drooping tail as it lolls about the kennels, and compare it with the same hound as, with gleaming eyes and straining muscles, it runs upon a breast-high scent—such was the change in Holmes since the morning.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“You see, dear heart,” said he, “that they will not leave the old dog in his kennel when the game is afoot. And what of this White Company, archer?”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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