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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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KENNEL, n. A street gutter, a channel or runlet for water (Ayr. 1959). Now chiefly dial. in Eng.Sc. 1728 Scots Mag. (May 1770) 259:
The gentleman . . . pushed him into a dirty kennel two feet deep, over head and ears.
Ayr. 1793 W. Fullarton Agric. Ayr. 39:
Like the streets of Naples, high at the side, and tending to a kennel or gutter in the middle.
Slk. 1827 Hogg Shepherd's Cal. (1874) vii.:
Leaving him sprawling in the kennel.

[A form of obs. Eng. cannel, M.E. canel, kanel, O.North.Fr. canel, a channel.]

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