English▸ noun a small shelter for a dog or cat.
▪ a boarding or breeding establishment for dogs or cats.
▸ verb
(kennels, kenneling, kenneled; mainly British kennels, kennelling, kennelled)
[with object] put (a dog or cat) in a kennel: the dogs have been kenneled.
– ORIGIN Middle English : from an Old Northern French variant of Old French chenil, from Latin canis ‘dog’.