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A kennel is a small shelter or house for a dog, usually kept in a yard. In the plural, 'kennels' (especially in British English) means a place where dogs are bred, or where they stay and are looked after while their owners are away, like on holiday.
狗屋;(複數)寵物寄宿中心
組成From the Latin word 'canis', meaning dog, by way of an old French word.
同家族的字
- canineboth come from the Latin word canis, meaning dog
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Kennelname
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A surname.
kennelnoun詞源 1/ˈkɛn.əl/
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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, Of fals double tunges in the diſpite.
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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.
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A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
- A little herd of England's timorous deer, / Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!
- 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.
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The hole of a fox or other animal.
kennelverb詞源 1/ˈkɛn.əl/
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To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
- While we're away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.
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To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
- Truth's a dog must to kennel;
- The Dog Kennell'd in the Body of a Hollow Tree, and the Cock Roosted at night upon the Boughs.
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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.
kennelnoun詞源 2/ˈkɛn.əl/
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obsoleteThe 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 […].
- [A] scavenger working in the kennel
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obsoleteA puddle.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。