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Kennel vs Wennel - What's the difference?

kennel | wennel |

As nouns the difference between kennel and wennel

is that kennel is a house or shelter for a dog while wennel is obsolete form of lang=en|weanel.

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) 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.

    • wennel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 16thC , , May?s Husbandry'', ''A Book of Huswifery'', in 1812, William Mavor (editor), ''Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry together with A Book of Huswifery , page 156,
    • Pinch never thy wennels of water and meat4, / If ever ye hope to have them good neat.
  • * 1983 , Frederick George Emmison, Elizabethan Wills of South-West Essex , page 24,
    • To Agnes Fullam my daughter-in-law 1 calf or wennel to be weaned and brought up at Easter next come 12 months until it be profitable and then to have it to her own use.
  • * 2010 , J. A. Noble, The Lime Walk: A Story of Norfolk Family Life in the Regency Era , page 147,
    • His white-locked head shaking from side to side, the man was moaning: “They ploughed up the common and me wennel Bu??ercup died. An so me chile died and then me ?ooman died. They all on ?em died cos they ploughed up the common... ”