英语词汇“kennel”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	kennel
释义	ken·nel I. \ˈken^əl\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English kenel, from (assumed) Old North French kenil, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin canile (whence Old French chenil kennel, French dialect cani), from Latin canis dog — more at hound 1. a. (1) : a house for a dog or pack of hounds (2) : an establishment for the breeding or boarding of dogs — usually used in plural b. : a house or other dwelling place regarded as unfit for human residence 2. a. : a pack of dogs or other animals b. : a group of persons < literary agent who has a kennel of eccentric clients — Martin Levin > 3. : a bed or den of an animal (as a fox or otter) 4. : gable 2b II. verb (kenneled or kennelled ; kenneled or kennelled ; kenneling or kennelling ; kennels) *intransitive verb* 1. : to take shelter or lie in a kennel < the fox kennels on the hillside > 2. : to lodge in a dwelling place regarded as unfit for human residence < the dull sodden faces of the man and woman who kenneled there — E.P.Roe > *transitive verb* 1. a. : to put or keep in a kennel < kennel your hound for he has been well whipped — J.H.Wheelwright > < the apple trees under which the dogs were kenneled — Eve Langley > b. : to provide with a dwelling place regarded as unfit for human residence < that quarter of the town where they are kenneled is … inhabited by strangers — Richard Steele > 2. : to provide or seek lodging or shelter for especially in a secluded place < writers and painters … kenneling themselves in the depths of the country — Times Literary Supplement > 3. : to keep within bounds or under control : confine, restrain < indulge our enthusiasms while keeping our angers and envies kenneled — Brand Blanshard > < constantly striving to keep his quickly roused temper kenneled > III. noun (-s) Etymology: alteration of cannel (II) : a gutter in a street < streets were ill-paved and … sloped down on both sides to the kennels — G.M.Trevelyan >
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