– We want to look at the dog kennels.– Thats the pet department, second floor.''
A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.
She raises registered Dalmatians at her kennel.
puhekieltä The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
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1843, w:Thomas_Carlyle Thomas Carlyle, :w:Past and Present (book)|Past and Present, book 3, ch. IX, Working Aristocracy
A world of mere Patent-Digesters will soon have nothing to digest: such world ends, and by Law of Nature must end, in ‘over-population;’ in howling universal famine, ‘impossibility,’ and suicidal madness, as of endless dog-kennels run rabid.
The hole of a fox or other animal. puhekieltä To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
While were away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.''
puhekieltä To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
L'Estrange
The dog kennelled in a hollow tree.
puhekieltä A gutter at the edge of a street.
1899, Guy Boothby, Pharos the Egyptian
A biting wind whistled through the streets, the pavements were dotted with umbrella-laden figures, the kennels ran like mill-sluices, while the roads were only a succession of lamp-lit puddles through which the wheeled traffic splashed continuously.