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▪ I. † kennet1 Obs. Also 4–5 kenet, 5 -it. [a. ONF. kennet = OF. chienet, etc. (Godef.), dim. of chien dog.] A small dog, used in hunting.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1701 A kenet kryes þerof, þe hunt on hym calles. a1400Morte Arth. 122 The Romaynes..Cowchide as kenetez before þe kynge selvyne. c1425Seven Sag. (P.) 1740 The lord a lytyl kenet hadde. 1486Bk. St. Albans F iv b, Theis be the namys of houndes..Rachys, Kenettys, Terroures. 16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. ii. v. 870 My father..keepes an open table for all kinde of dogges... He hath your..Leurier, your Spaniell, your Kennets. 1614Bk. Hauking in Strutt Sports & Past. i. i. (1801) 17 Lemors, kenets, terrours. ▪ II. † kennet2 Obs. rare. Also 5 kannette, 6 kenet(te. [prob. a. ONF. *canette, *kenette = OF. chenette (one example in Godef.), f. L. cānus hoary: cf. ONF. canu, kenu, F. chenu:—*cānūtus.] A kind of grey cloth.
1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xiv. xii. 63 b/1 Wel semed he for age to tremble & had made his hed lyke as hit had been of kannette. 1541Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 3 A certayne kinde..of walshe clothes called whytes, russettes, and kenettes. [In Poulton kennets: hence in Blount, Phillips, etc.] b. Comb. † kennet-colour a., grey-coloured.
1530Palsgr. 235/2 Kenet coloure, cendré. ▪ III. [kennet Naut. Error for kevel (q.v.), in Kersey's Phillips 1706, whence in Bailey, Chambers, Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Century Dict., etc. ] |