Kennel vs Fennel - What's the difference?
kennel | fennel |
A house or shelter for a dog.
A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
(UK) The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
* 1843 , '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy
The hole of a fox or other animal.
To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
* L'Estrange
(obsolete) A gutter at the edge of a street.
* 1899 , Guy Boothby, Pharos the Egyptian
(obsolete) A puddle.
A plant, Foeniculum vulgare , of the parsley family, which has a sweet, anise-like flavor.
The bulb, leaves, or stalks of the plant, eaten as a vegetable.
The seeds of the fennel plant used as a spice in cooking.
As nouns the difference between kennel and fennel
is that kennel is a house or shelter for a dog while fennel is a plant, Foeniculum vulgare, of the parsley family, which has a sweet, anise-like flavor.As a verb kennel
is to house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).kennel
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from a *canile , ultimately from (etyl) canisNoun
(en noun)- – We want to look at the dog kennels .
– That's the pet department, second floor.
- The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.
- She raises registered Dalmatians at her kennel .
- (Shakespeare)
- 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.
Synonyms
* (shelter for a dog) doghouseVerb
- While we're away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.
- The dog kennelled in a hollow tree.
Etymology 2
See channel, canal.Noun
(en noun)- 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)
