kennel

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
kennel/ˈkenl/

▶noun

• 1 a small shelter for a dog.

• 2 (kennels) [treated as sing. or pl.] a boarding or breeding establishment for dogs.

▶verb (kennels, kennelling, kennelled; US kennels, kenneling, kenneled) put or keep (a dog) in a kennel or kennels.

– origin ME: from an Old North. Fr. var. of OFr. chenil, from L. canis ‘dog’.