dog kenneln.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. xii. 2214/2 This Margery Austoo was in the Byshops prison (which prison I suppose was his dogge kennell, for it was, as is reported, vnder a payre of stayres).

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Chiennerie, a dog-house, or dog-kennell.

1664 R. Baxter Divine Life sig. a2 If our faculties be not by sanctifying Grace restored, they fall below their proper dignity and use;..like a Prince or Learned man that is employed only in sweeping Dog-kennels.

1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. *A A certain Nobleman, who beginning with a Dog-kennil, never liv'd to finish the Palace he had contriv'd.

1736 H. Fielding Pasquin ii. i. 23 May. Sir Harry is to give me a Place. Mrs. May. A Place in his Dog-kennel?

1820 R. Anderson Poet. Wks. II. 242 The alms-house I'll soon to a dog-kennel turn; The poor may e'en go where they will.

1899 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 180/1 A considerable farm, with all the accompaniments of..large barn, corn barn, horse stable, cow stable, and dog kennel.

1979 M. Matshoba Pilgrimage to Isle of Makana in Call me not Man 114 On one wall of the square one saw rows of dog-kennels on both sides of a street.

2009 New Yorker 30 Mar. 40/1 Recreation in an outdoor cage that he estimated to be fifty feet long and five feet wide, known as ‘the dog kennel’.