[f. KENNEL sb.1]
1. intr. To lie or dwell in a kennel; to retire into a kennel. Of a fox or other wild beast: To retreat into a lair. Of a person (contemptuous): To lodge or lurk. Also fig.
1552. Huloet, Acherusius, a … caue in hell wherin … the dogge of hell cannelleth.
a. 1577. Gascoigne, Wks., To such as find fault. We see the dog that kenels in his den.
1599. J. Ferne, Lett., 4 May (Cecil MSS. Hatf. Ho. LXIX. No. 103). The book … was made by Campion while he kenelled at this house.
1603. Drayton, Heroic. Ep., xiii. 156. Glad here to kennell in a Pad of Straw.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, III. xiv. (1660), 166. You shall say that a Fox Kenneleth.
1726. G. Roberts, Four Years Voy., 102. The rest kennelling like Hounds on Deck, or where they could.
1847. Bushnell, Chr. Nurt., II. iii. (1861), 279. All foul passions that kennel in a sensual soul.
1884. E. P. Roe, in Harper’s Mag., Feb., 445/1. The dull, sodden faces of the man and woman who kennelled there.
2. trans. To put into, or keep in, a kennel.
1592. Shaks., Ven. & Ad., clii. Here kennelled in a brake she finds a hound.
1641. J. Jackson, True Evang. T., III. 205. Kennelling the Wolfe and the Lamb together.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 62, ¶ 3. That Quarter of the Town where they are kennel’d is generally inhabited by strangers.
1887. Daily News, 31 Dec., 3/7. Hearing that the hounds were poisoned, Mr. Cochrane kennelled the harriers at the house of a friend.
b. transf. and fig. To lodge, shut up; to put in a place of retreat or confinement.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, I. (Arb.), 28. His ships hee kenneld neere forrest vnder an angle Of rock.
1607. Rowlands, Diog. Lanth., 12. Away with him,… chayne and kennell him vp in Iayle.
1677. Mrs. Behn, Adelazer, II. ii. Let’s to the Queen’s Apartment, and seize this Moor; I am sure there the Mongrel’s kennel’d.
1840. Dickens, Barn. Rudge, xviii. Hold the torch up till I’ve got to the end of the court, and then kennel yourself.
Hence Kennelled ppl. a.; Kennelling vbl. sb., also concr. provision of kennels; also attrib.
1716. B. Church, Hist. Philip’s War (1865), I. 65. His next kennelling Place was at the falls of Connecticut River.
1730–46. Thomson, Autumn, 548. The kennelled hounds Mix in the music of the day again.
1870. Blaine, Encycl. Rur. Sports (ed. 3), § 1945. The Kennelling of greyhounds should equal that of foxhounds in amplitude.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., xxxv. Gwendolen had lingered behind to look at the kennelled blood-hounds.
