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Barn vs Kennel - What's the difference?

barn | kennel |

In lang=en terms the difference between barn and kennel

is that barn is to lay up in a barn while kennel is to lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.

As nouns the difference between barn and kennel

is that barn is (label) a building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle or barn can be (dialect|parts of northern england) a child while kennel is a house or shelter for a dog or kennel can be (obsolete) a gutter at the edge of a street.

As verbs the difference between barn and kennel

is that barn is to lay up in a barn while kennel is to house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).

barn

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) bern, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
  • * , chapter=11
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.}}
  • (label) A unit of surface area equal to 10-28 square metres.
  • An arena.
    • Derived terms
    * barnstar * barnstorm * barnyard * barn dance * barn door * barn owl * barn-raising * born in a barn * raised in a barn * smell the barn

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To lay up in a barn.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Men often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.
    (Fuller)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) barn, bern, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialect, parts of Northern England) A child.
    • Synonyms
    * (child) bairn

    Anagrams

    * * English syncopic forms ----

    kennel

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from a *canile , ultimately from (etyl) canis

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A house or shelter for a dog.
    • – We want to look at the dog kennels .
    – That's the pet department, second floor.
  • 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 .
  • (UK) The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * 1843 , '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy
    • 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.
  • The hole of a fox or other animal.
    • Synonyms
    * (shelter for a dog) doghouse

    Verb

  • To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
    • While we're away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.
  • To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
  • * L'Estrange
    • The dog kennelled in a hollow tree.

    Etymology 2

    See channel, canal.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A gutter at the edge of a street.
  • * 1899 , Guy Boothby, Pharos the Egyptian
    • 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.
    (Bishop Hall)
  • (obsolete) A puddle.