Early form of KENNEL for dogs.
1509. Barclay, Ship of Fooles (1570), 85. They make of the Church for their hawkes a mewe And Canell for their dogges.
1570. Levins, Manip., 55. A canel of dogs, canile.
Canel3, -ell, var. CANNEL. Obs., channel, neck, cannel-coal.