Kennels vs Doghouse - What's the difference?
kennels | doghouse |
Any small house or structure or enclosure used to house a dog.
* 1902 , Thomas Dixon, The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden--1865-1900 , page 61
A structure of small size, similar to a doghouse, but offering useful shelter for a human.
* 1840 , James Holman, ''Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando ..., page 411
* p.'' 1927 , ''United States Code Annotated
* 1958 , in Rudder , Page 33
* 2005 , Alan Cockrell, Drilling Ahead: The Quest for Oil in the Deep South, 1945-2005 , page 276
Mechanically, an equipment cover with an opening, with a shape resembling a doghouse.
(nautical) A difficult or demoralizing situation.
* 1981 , Charles Snelling, Nomenclature of Ships , Naval Sea Systems Command publication
As nouns the difference between kennels and doghouse
is that kennels is while doghouse is any small house or structure or enclosure used to house a dog.doghouse
English
(wikipedia doghouse)Noun
- "But, honey, whar yo' ole man gwine ter sleep?" "Dey's straw in de barn, en pine shatters in de doghouse !" she shouted, slamming the window.
- This berth of mine was commonly called a doghouse (a box about six feet long, four high, and two broad,) containing a mattress fitted about 18 inches from the deck.
- so as to render railroad liable for death of brakeman falling from tender, notwithstanding construction of doghouse on top of tender for brakeman's use.
- The yacht is well equipped and has accommodations for six people. A teak doghouse over the forward part of the cockpit affords [....]
- A rotary rig could have drilled that much in a day. Oscar had been here a month. He kept a careful log on the doghouse wall [....]
- During the slave trade, slaves were packed into every available niche aboard the slave ships, including the officers' cabins. The officers slept on deck in semi-cylindrical boxes, nicknamed "dog houses." The term "in the dog house" grew to describe being in a difficult situation due to the extreme discomfort of sleeping in these boxes.
