kennel

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A house or shelter for a dog.
    — – We want to look at the dog kennels. – That's the pet department, second floor.
  2. The gutter at the edge of a street; a surface drain. obsolete
    — Ay, kennel, puddle, sink, whose filth and dirt / Troubles the silver spring where England drinks […].
  3. A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
    — The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.
  4. A puddle. obsolete
  5. The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds. UK,collective
    — A little herd of England's timorous deer, / Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!
  6. The hole of a fox or other animal.
动词 v.
  1. To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal). transitive
    — While we're away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.
  2. To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox. intransitive
    — Truth's a dog must to kennel;
  3. To drive (a fox) to covert in its hole. transitive
    — This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set.

词形变化

kennels plural kennels present,singular,third-person kenneling US,participle,present kennelling UK,participle,present kenneled US,participle,past kenneled US,past kennelled UK,participle,past kennelled UK,past kennels plural

词汇关系

上位词
conduit
衍生词
enkennel ken kennel club kennel coal kennel cough kennel council kennelful kennellike kennelmaid kennel maid kennelman kennelmate kennel raker kennel-raker kennelwoman skip-kennel unkennel

词源

词源 1
PIE word
*ḱwṓ
From Middle English kenel, kenell, borrowed from Anglo-Norman *kenil, northern variant of Old French chenil, from Vulgar Latin *canīle, from Latin canis.
词源 2
From Middle English canel, from Old French canel, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”), from Latin canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Cognate with English channel, canal.
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