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▪ I. kennel, n.1|ˈkɛnəl|
Forms: 4–6 kenel, 5 -elle, 5–6 -ell, (6 cannel), 6–7 kennell, 6– kennel.
[app. a. ONF. *kenil = F. chenil (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.):—popular L. canīle (in Wr.-Wülcker 198/29), f. canis dog, with suffix as in ovīle sheepfold. Sense 2 may be partly due to OF. kienaille, chienaille (= mod.F. canaille) pack of dogs (Godef.).]
1. a. A house or cot for the shelter of a house-dog; a house or range of buildings in which a pack of hounds or sporting dogs are kept. Also (usu. pl.), an establishment where dogs are bred, or where they are cared for in the absence of their owners.
13..[see kennel-door in 3]. c1440Promp. Parv. 271/2 Kenel for howndys,..canicularium. 1576Turberv. Venerie 27 In the highest place of the Courte it shall be good to buylde the kennell or lodging for the Houndes. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, iv. iv. 47 From forth the kennell of thy wombe hath crept A Hell-hound that doth hunt vs all to death. 1642Carpenter Experience ii. xi. 215 The Curre taken out of the Kennell, and provoked to barke. 1735Somerville Chase i. 124 First let the Kennel be the Huntsman's Care. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. i. 16 All the other dogs are in their kennels. 1887G. Stables Practical Kennel Guide (ed. 3) xv. 145, I know some kennels..which are a disgrace to civilised society—dirty and beastly in the extreme. 1896Notable Dogs of Yr. (Advt.), Borzoi kennels and sanatorium for dogs and cats. Patients treated at the kennels. 1925J. Lucas Pedigree Dog Breeding 61 Those intending to board their dogs for more than a week or two should try and visit one or two kennels before making their selection... Many kennels..make a speciality of whelping cases. 1931N. W. Lewis Your Dog iii. 173 Good bitches can be bought..from big kennels that have become overstocked. 1969[see boarding kennel s.v. boarding vbl. n. 7]. 1974R. Rendell Face of Trespass ii. 27 I've never left her since she was a puppy... I couldn't put her in kennels. She'd fret.
b. The hole or lair of the fox.
1735Somerville Chase iii. 54 While from his Kennel sneaks The conscious Villain. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. II. 190 The instant he perceives himself pursued, he makes to his kennel.
c. Contemptuously applied to a small and mean dwelling or hut.
1837Dickens Pickw. xlv, He got us a room—we were in a kennel before. 1887Rider Haggard Jess xxxi, Jess..never entered the Hottentot's kennel.
d. A woman's head-dress, of a shape suggesting a kennel.
See Fairholt's Hist. Costume (1885) I. 226, and cf. quot. for kennel-shaped in 3.
1896Gloucestersh. N. & Q. No. 72. 138 On their heads they wear the kennel or angular head dress so generally worn during the latter part of the reign of Henry VII.
e. fig. Place to occupy.
1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxix. (1856) 355 The last-named came on board last, and found, though he is not a very large man, a sufficiently narrow kennel between the companion-ladder and the dinner-table.
2. a. A pack of hounds, or of dogs of any kind.
c1470in Hors Shepe & G., etc. (Caxton 1479, Roxb. repr.) 31 A brace of houndes, a kenel of recches. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (1531) 49 A kenel of houndes folowynge theyr game. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iv. ii. 47. 1781 W. Blane Ess. Hunting (1788) 62 It is hard to procure an even kennel of fast Hounds. 1826Scott Woodst. iv, Hurt a dog, and the whole kennel will fall on him and worry him.
b. A pack or troop of other animals.
1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. i. 48 What a Kennell of these Wolves, Leopards, &c. was there in France. 1765T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. I. i. 114 The howling of a kennel of wolves. 1844Kinglake Eöthen (1847) 217 A kennel of very fine lions..I say a kennel of lions, for the beasts were..simply chained up like dogs.
†c. fig. A pack, crew, gang, of persons. Obs.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 39 Dionisius, and I know not how many more of the same kennell. 1649Fuller Just Man's Fun. 12 Hear the whole kennel of Atheists come in with a full crie. 1720T. Gordon Cordial for Low Spirits 77 We are enchanted by a stupid Kennel of Stock-Jobbers.
†d. Used for canaille. Obs.
1726Penn's Tracts Wks. I. 730 It has not only prevail'd with the Populace, the Kennel [ed. 1679 Cannale], the Vulgar. 1771E. Long Trial of Dog ‘Porter’ in Hone Everyday Bk. II. 199 A liquor the London kennel much delight in.
3. attrib. and Comb., as kennel-door, kennel-groom, kennel-huntsman, kennel-maid, kennel-man, kennel-work; kennel-shaped adj.; kennel-book, a book recording events of a kennel where dogs are bred; cf. herd-book, stud-book; Kennel Club, an organization, founded in 1873, which establishes dog breeds, records pedigrees, issues the rules for dog shows and trials, etc.; also, a branch of this organization; kennel lameness, a rheumatic disease in dogs, freq. affecting the forelegs.
1890M. Deland Sidney iii. 42 One of these researches among *kennel-books resulted in a present to Ted of the mastiff puppies.
1874F. C. S. Pearce Kennel Club Stud Bk. p. v, The Club shall be called the *Kennel Club, it shall endeavour in every way to promote the general improvement of dogs, dog shows, and dog trials. 1935Discovery Oct. 310/2 The breed has been taken up by kennel clubs and the dogs are now officially called Illyrian Sheepdogs. 1959Listener 12 Mar. 447/1 These details were vouched and signed for by the chief of the local kennel club. 1971F. Hamilton World Encycl. Dogs 620 Registration of a pedigree dog at the Kennel Club is a simple matter; it is usually completed by the breeder, the fee of 5s.{ddd}registers the dog for life.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1140 Þenne þise cacheres þat couþe, cowpled hor houndes, Vnclosed þe *kenel dore, & calde hem þer-oute. 1875W. S. Hayward Love agst. World 4 The kennel-door was thrown open.
1829Sporting Mag. XXIII. 208 My *kennel-groom has orders frequently to lead the dogs to little distance from the kennel.
1841R. T. Vyner Notitia Venatica 45 *Kennel-lameness, or shoulder-lameness, as it is sometimes called. 1885Beaufort & Morris Hunting 112 That mortal scourge which among men is known as rheumatism, and among hounds as kennel lameness. 1930C. Frederick et al. Fox-Hunting viii. 108 Through this cause they appear to stiffen up, which is mistaken for kennel lameness. 1948H. Kirk Index of Treatm. in Small-Animal Pract. ii. 445 Kennel lameness. This layman's term is meant to indicate a condition brought about by a diet deficient in calcium which affects mainly full-grown animals kept for some weeks or months in kennels and fed chiefly on dog biscuit.
1907Westm. Gaz. 5 July 9/1 In the lady's service was the prisoner, who occupied the position of *kennel-maid. 1929Daily Express 16 Jan. 5/2 The showing of dogs is skilled work for a kennelmaid. 1970Daily Tel. 14 Apr. 17/2 He had bought substantial quantities of veterinary preparations for the mange and had left the treatment to a young kennelmaid.
1828Sporting Mag. XXIII. 23 Your *kennel-man should be constantly on the watch. 1954C. L. B. Hubbard Compl. Dog Breeders' Manual x. 103 With reliable staffing the kennel runs smoothly enough, therefore it is essential that he selects his kennelmen and kennelmaids with care. 1972Shooting Times & Country Mag. 27 May 18/3 To manage such a large kennel Sheppard has two kennel-men in addition to four girls.
1898Yorksh. Archæol. Jrnl. No. 57. 7 His wife Margaret..wears the *kennel-shaped head-dress.
1929Daily Express 16 Jan. 5/2 *Kennelwork as a career for educated girls. 1971Dangerfield & Howell Internat. Encycl. Dogs 268 Kennel work cannot be classed as an effeminate career for a male or an overly masculine job for a woman.
▪ II. kennel, n.2|ˈkɛnəl|
Also 6 kenell, 6–7 kennell.
[Later form of cannel n.1 (q.v.); for the vowel, cf. ketch, keg, kedge, etc., from catch, cag, cadge, etc.]
The surface drain of a street; the gutter: = cannel n.1 2.
1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 55 Thee streets and kennels are with slayne carcases heaped. 1607Rowlands Diog. Lanth. 9 Nay ile go low enough to the kennel, thou shalt not iustle me for the wall. 1608–33Bp. Hall Medit. & Vows §103 A Scavenger working in the Kennel. 1764Harmer Observ. xii. i. 35 Having no kennels in the streets to carry off the water, it was ancle-deep. 1879G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie I. i. 2 Raking with both hands in the grey dirt of the kennel.
fig.1637R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose Pref., I will rake no deeper into this kennell. 1678Yng. Mans Call. 317 Sometime thou wert the beautiful image of God, but now the stinking and filthy kennel of Satan. 1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) II. 97 Descending into the kennel of obscenity and buffoonery.
b. attrib. and Comb., as kennel sink, kennel water; kennel-muddy adj.; kennel-brow, the top of the sloping side of a gutter; kennel-dash, a splash from the gutter; kennel-nymph, a girl of the streets; † kennel wits, muddy brains. Also kennel-raker.
1761Lond. Mag. XXX. 17 The step..with a pebble or two standing up in the *kennel-brow before, would secure the posts from being moved.
1731Gentl. Mag. I. 332 To walk through Rag Fair in Dirty Weather..a jostle in one place, a slip in another, a slop in a third, a *Kennel-dash in a fourth.
1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 16 *Kennel-muddy thoughts.
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 10 June, Let. i, He..indulged himself..with one of the *kennel-nymphs.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie i. ii. 176 The *kennell sincke of slaues.
1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 268 Horse-dung, and *Kennel-Water, contribute beyond all belief to the forwarding of Plants.
1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 5 That men should haue such *kennel wits To thinke so well of a scald railing vaine.
Hence (nonce-wds.) † ˈkennelage [cf. drainage] a system of kennels, gutters collectively; ˈkennelled a., lying in the gutter; ˈkennelly a., such as is found in a kennel or gutter.
1612Sturtevant Metallica 92 Kennellage is one of the chiefe kinds of Pipeage which passeth and voydeth away the stincking and filthy waters of citties and townes. 1794Coleridge To the Nightingale, ‘Sister of love-lorn Poets’, They..Mark the faint Lamp-beam on the Kennell'd mud. 1803Sir R. T. Wilson Brit. Exp. Egypt 63 The miraculous qualities of the river [Nile]..the luxuries which the very kennelly waters would afford.
▪ III. † kennel, n.3 Obs.
In 6 kenel.
Var. cannel n.1 5: cf. cannel-bone, neck-bone.
c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 902 The knot of the necke, le neu du col; the hole of the necke, la fosse du col; the kenel of the necke, la canol du col.
▪ IV. kennel, n.4
obs. form of cannel n.2
17..Black in Brand Hist. Newcastle (1789) II. 242 note, Parrot, or kennel coal is distinguished by producing a more copious bright flame. 1794Mrs. Piozzi Synon. I. 408 One large kennel coal keeps his chamber from excess of cold.
▪ V. kennel, v.|ˈkɛnəl|
[f. kennel n.1]
1. a. intr. To lie or dwell in a kennel; to retire into a kennel. Of a fox or other wild beast: To retreat into a lair. Of a person (contemptuous): To lodge or lurk. Also fig.
1552Huloet, Acherusius, a..caue in hell wherin..the dogge of hell cannelleth. a1577Gascoigne Wks., To such as find fault, We see the dog that kenels in his den. 1599J. Ferne Let. 4 May (Cecil MSS. Hatf. Ho. LXIX. No. 103), The book..was made by Campion while he kenelled at this house. 1603Drayton Heroic. Ep. xiii. 156 Glad here to kennell in a Pad of Straw. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xiv. (1660) 166 You shall say that a Fox Kenneleth. 1726G. Roberts 4 Years Voy. 102 The rest kennelling like Hounds on Deck, or where they could. 1847Bushnell Chr. Nurt. ii. iii. (1861) 279 All foul passions that kennel in a sensual soul. 1884E. P. Roe in Harper's Mag. Feb. 445/1 The dull, sodden faces of the man and woman who kennelled there.
b. With up. To return to one's kennel (also fig.); to keep quiet, to shut up. colloq.
1913Galsworthy Fugitive iii. i, 63 You've run her to earth; your job's done. Kennel up, hounds! 1919W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 30 Kennel-up, stop talking. 1929Galsworthy Roof ii. 37 Kennel up, Reggie! You've had too much and you know it. 1972Shooting Times & Country Mag. 4 Mar. 37/3 After clean straw had been put on their benches, the order ‘kennel up!’ was given, though not immediately obeyed.
2. a. trans. To put into, or keep in, a kennel.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. clii, Here kennelled in a brake she finds a hound. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. iii. 205 Kennelling the Wolfe and the Lamb together. 1709Steele Tatler No. 62 ⁋3 That Quarter of the Town where they are kennel'd is generally inhabited by stangers. 1887Daily News 31 Dec. 3/8 Mr. C. kennelled the harriers at the house of a friend.
b. transf. and fig. To lodge, shut up; to put in a place of retreat or confinement.
1582Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 28 His ships hee kenneld neere forrest vnder an angle Of rock. 1607Rowlands Diog. Lanth. 12 Away with him,..chayne and kennell him vp in Iayle. 1677A. Behn Adelazer ii. ii, Let's to the Queen's Apartment, and seize this Moor; I am sure there the Mongrel's kennel'd. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xviii, Hold the torch up till I've got to the end of the court, and then kennel yourself.
Hence ˈkennelled ppl. a.; ˈkennelling vbl. n., also concr. provision of kennels; also attrib.
1716B. Church Hist. Philip's War (1865) I. 65 His next kennelling Place was at the falls of Connecticut River. 1730–46Thomson Autumn 548 The kennelled hounds Mix in the music of the day again. 1870D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rur. Sports (ed. 3) §1945 The kennelling of greyhounds should equal that of foxhounds in amplitude. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxxv, Gwendolen had lingered behind to look at the kennelled blood-hounds. |