kennelry

From kennel +‎ -ry.

kennelry (plural kennelries)

1. (uncommon) Synonym of kennel (place).
   • 1880 October 30, Refugee [pseudonym], “Colorado Correspondence”, in The Rock Island Argus, volume XXX, number 17, Rock Island, Ill., published 5 November 1880, →ISSN, →OCLC, page [4], column 5:

     Pursuing our homeward journey four or five miles we descried a long row of cabins after the style of a Mormon’s wife kennelry. Another lady of the party of persuasive eloquence volunteered to assist in imploring of the inmates shelter for the night. But the queen of the cabins had only one bed which she could place at our service, and was not at all prepared to take care of us anyway.

   • 1933 November 9, Renee Shann, “Girl about Town”, in Daily Mirror, number 9,348, London, →OCLC, page 19, column 1:

     “How about this? ‘Owner going abroad wishes to sell wire-haired terrier-breeding kennelry.’” […] She read out the advertisement. The Frampton Kennelries were five miles from Horsham.

   • 1937 May 21, Northerner [pseudonym], “This World of Ours […]”, in The Yorkshire Post, Leeds, Yorkshire, →OCLC, page 6, column 2:

     A kennelry (if I may be permitted to coin so convenient a term) is inviting Coronation visitors and others to call and see the Barkless Basenjis.

   • 1986 September 17, George Darling, quotee, House of Commons, Select Committee on the Channel Tunnel Bill: Session 1985-86, Minutes of Evidence, volume II, London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, →OCLC, page 1068, column 2:

     Especially hard-hit will be the residents of Danton Pinch, whose village will be wiped off the map, while Danton Lane kennelry will have to go also.

   • 1994, Peter Spear, “Hellhounds”, in Return to Zork (BradyGames), Indianapolis, Ind.: Brady Publishing, →ISBN, page 141:

     The descendants of these fearsome canines finally became domesticated in late 1646 GUE. They are, however, still quite ferocious and not to be trifled with because they’ve been cross-bred with the best guard dogs from the Major Pie R. Squared Kennelry.

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2. (very rare) Synonym of kennel (collective).
   • 1884 October 17, a “J” Pen [pseudonym; David Lloyd George], “Nota Bene’s”, in North Wales Observer and Express […], volume VII, number 376, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, →OCLC, page 5, column 3:

     He is convinced that the aristocracy stands in the way of the development of the rights of man, and he says so unflinchingly, though he be howled at as an ill-mannered demagogue by the whole kennelry of gorged aristocracy, and of their fawning minions.

   • 1903 July 18, “Landmark at Courthouse Gone”, in Wisconsin State Journal, last edition, volume 101, number 93, Madison, Wis., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:

     Frank was fourteen years old and had both shepherd and bulldog blood in his veins. He probably found a quiet satisfaction in the fact that his successor at the courthouse proved incompetent and lasted not over a year. In the annals of kennelry Frank should belong to the ages.

   • 1918 August 29, “Cisco”, in The Independent, volume 2, number 18, Moab, Ut., →OCLC, page 6, column 2:

     He advises they attempted to purloin the entire hennery and kennelry, is that right? Any way there was a classical and keenly contested debate at the station relative to who really “own dem ’ar chickens and dat ’ar dog” in which Mr. McGraw was[,] of course, the winner.