kennel

Meanings

Noun

• A house or shelter for a dog.
• A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
• The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
• The hole of a fox or other animal.
• The gutter at the edge of a street; a surface drain.
• A puddle.

Verb

• To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
• To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
• To drive (a fox) to covert in its hole.

Related

Similar words

• drain, gutter, trough

Broader meaning words

• conduit

Origin

• From Anglo-Norman kenil, from an Old Northern French variant of Old French chenil (whence modern French chenil), from Vulgar Latin *canile, ultimately from Latin canis ("dog"), hence from Latin canes, from Proto-Italic *kō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.
• From Middle English canel, from Old French canel, from Latin canālis ("channel; canal"), from Latin canna ("reed, cane"), from Ancient Greek κάννα ("reed"), from Akkadian 𒄀 ("reed"), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾. Cognate with English channel, canal.