noun

• (UK, collective) The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
  "A little herd of England's timorous deer, / Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!"

verb

• (transitive) To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
  "While we're away our friends will kennel our pet poodle."
• (intransitive) To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
  "Truth's a dog must to kennel;"
• (transitive) To drive (a fox) to covert in its hole.
  "This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set."

noun

• (obsolete) The gutter at the edge of a street; a surface drain.
  "Ay, kennel, puddle, sink, whose filth and dirt / Troubles the silver spring where England drinks […]."
• (obsolete) A puddle.