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KENNEL

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Irregular inflected forms: kennelled    , kennelling   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog

Synonyms:

dog house; doghouse; kennel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put up in a kennel

Example:

kennel a dog

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Nature has taught them to dig deep holes with their nails on the side of a rising ground, wherein they lie by themselves; only the kennels of the females are larger, sufficient to hold two or three cubs.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I very soon started back from there, for the empty dog-kennel was filled up with a great dog—deep mouthed and black-haired like Him—and he was very angry at the sight of me, and sprang out to get at me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is a sad sight to see this very fine pass, which my own Company here could hold against an army, and yet to ride through it with as little profit as though it were the lane from my kennels to the Avon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had heard, indeed, some curious Houyhnhnms observe, that in most herds there was a sort of ruling Yahoo (as among us there is generally some leading or principal stag in a park), who was always more deformed in body, and mischievous in disposition, than any of the rest; that this leader had usually a favourite as like himself as he could get, whose employment was to lick his master’s feet and posteriors, and drive the female Yahoos to his kennel; for which he was now and then rewarded with a piece of ass’s flesh.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Now I am in the garden at the back, beyond the yard where the empty pigeon-house and dog-kennel are—a very preserve of butterflies, as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate and padlock; where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket, while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unmoved.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To your kennels, canaille!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That in some fields of his country there are certain shining stones of several colours, whereof the Yahoos are violently fond: and when part of these stones is fixed in the earth, as it sometimes happens, they will dig with their claws for whole days to get them out; then carry them away, and hide them by heaps in their kennels; but still looking round with great caution, for fear their comrades should find out their treasure.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Sixty or seventy of them, large and small, smooth and shaggy—deer-hound, boar-hound, blood-hound, wolf-hound, mastiff, alaun, talbot, lurcher, terrier, spaniel—snapping, yelling and whining, with score of lolling tongues and waving tails, came surging down the narrow lane which leads from the Twynham kennels to the bank of Avon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He brought out of the Yahoos’ kennel a piece of ass’s flesh; but it smelt so offensively that I turned from it with loathing: he then threw it to the Yahoo, by whom it was greedily devoured.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This flapper is likewise employed diligently to attend his master in his walks, and upon occasion to give him a soft flap on his eyes; because he is always so wrapped up in cogitation, that he is in manifest danger of falling down every precipice, and bouncing his head against every post; and in the streets, of justling others, or being justled himself into the kennel.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)