kennel

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman kenil, from Old Northern French [Term?], variant of Old French chenil, whence French chenil (“kennel”).

noun

1. A house or shelter for a dog.
   – We want to look at the dog kennels. – That's the pet department, second floor.
   A fals double tunge is more fiers and fell Then Cerberus the cur couching in the kenel of hel; Wherof hereafter, I thinke for to write, c. 1515-1516, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c., published 1568
2. 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.
3. (UK, collective) The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
   A little herd of England's timorous deer, / Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs! 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, act 4, scene 2
   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. 1843, Thomas Carlyle, “IX: Working Aristocracy”, in Past and Present, book 3
4. The hole of a fox or other animal.

verb

1. (transitive) To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
   While we're away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.
2. (intransitive) To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
   Truth's a dog must to kennel; c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 1, scene 4
   The Dog Kennell'd in the Body of a Hollow Tree, and the Cock Roosted at night upon the Boughs. 1669, Sir Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, Fable CXLIII: A Dog and a Cock upon a Journey, page 130
3. (transitive) To drive (a fox) to covert in its hole.
   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. 1819, John Mayer, The Sportsman's Directory, or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion

Etymology 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.

noun

1. (obsolete) The gutter at the edge of a street; a surface drain.
   Ay, kennel, puddle, sink, whose filth and dirt / Troubles the silver spring where England drinks […]. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, act 4, scene 1
   Soon shall the Kennels swell with rapid Streams, / And rush in muddy Torrents to the Thames. 1716, John Gay, Trivia: Or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London, Book I
   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. 1899, Guy Boothby, Pharos the Egyptian
   a scavenger working in the kennel 1630, Joseph Hall, Occasional Meditations
2. (obsolete) A puddle.