Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A house or kennel for dogs. See kennel.

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Examples

  • Alas, he has the grasp andf courage of the Roman Emperor Vitellius, hiding in his dog-kennel.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Here is a knight, valiant, they say, in battle, and thought fitting to be graced with charges of weight in time of truce, whose esquire of the body is lodged worse than in the worst dog-kennel in

    The Talisman 2008

  • The SEC alleged that Buca's financial filings for 2000 to 2003 failed to disclose that its chief executive was improperly reimbursed by the Minneapolis-based company for personal expenses, including ATM cash withdrawals, home remodeling, wedding costs and dog-kennel fees.

    Buca Ex-Executives Settle 2008

  • When he with Laura in his hand went into the kitchen on his way to the dog-kennel, the fowl-houses, and other his favourite haunts, all the servants there assembled in great silence with their friends, and the labouring men and their wives, and Sally

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • Rudolph wrote that he spends 23 hours a day in his 7-by-12-foot cell, his only exercise confined to an enclosed area he described as a "large empty swimming pool" divided into "dog-kennel style cages."

    Memoirs, cartoons, rotting fish, peevish men... Ann Althouse 2006

  • Rudolph wrote that he spends 23 hours a day in his 7-by-12-foot cell, his only exercise confined to an enclosed area he described as a "large empty swimming pool" divided into "dog-kennel style cages."

    Supermax. Ann Althouse 2006

  • Rudolph wrote that he spends 23 hours a day in his 7-by-12-foot cell, his only exercise confined to an enclosed area he described as a "large empty swimming pool" divided into "dog-kennel style cages."

    Archive 2006-12-01 Ann Althouse 2006

  • A factory or even a gasworks is not obliged of its own nature to be ugly, any more than a palace or a dog-kennel or a cathedral.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

  • The next day Edward arose betimes, and in a morning walk around the house and its vicinity came suddenly upon a small court in front of the dog-kennel, where his friend Davie was employed about his four-footed charge.

    Waverley 2004

  • "I wouldn't leave a dog-kennel in this half-done condition."

    This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

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