unkennel
Americanverb (used with object)
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to drive (a fox or other animal) from a den or lair.
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to release from or as if from a kennel.
to unkennel hounds before a hunt; to unkennel a gang of cutthroats.
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to make known; disclose or uncover.
verb (used without object)
verb
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to release from a kennel
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to drive from a hole or lair
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rare to bring to light
Etymology
Origin of unkennel
Example Sentences
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If we cannot unkennel the fox," he said, "we will at least earth him up.
From Windsor Castle by William Harrison Ainsworth
Keep your secret, if you please, but, if you provoke me, I will trace it out; I will unkennel you.
From Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story by William Gilmore Simms
Not a man in the county could ride harder, hunt deer, unkennel fox, unearth badger, or spear otter, better than he.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
But, earth them as they will, I shall unkennel them, and from their holes Drag them to light and justice.”
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various
“He is nowhere below, but we shall probably unkennel him in the upper story,” I heard one of them say as they mounted the stairs.
From In New Granada Heroes and Patriots by William Henry Giles Kingston
Shall we desert snug homes? forego the sum Scraped through laborious years to smooth life's slope, And die like dogs unkenneled and untombed, At bidding of a sorrow-crazed old man?
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Emma Lazarus
The whimpering of one of his unkenneled "hunches" merged into what seemed an actual voice of inspiration to him.
From Never-Fail Blake by Arthur Stringer
They had always 3 or 4 Coats or coverings, and in the folds of these were unkennelled 1,330 Napoleons on one of them who happened to die at Bruxelles.
From Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) by Edward Stanley
In the suburbs we unkennelled the dogs: the pack consisted of twenty, all counted; ill-matched as to size and bone, but appearing healthy, clean, full of spirits, and in good working trim.
From Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Tyrone Power
"We have unkennelled the fox, have we?" the sergeant of the squad said.
From The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia by James Wells Champney
After a night much disturbed by this constant quarrelling, we unkennelled the hounds just as the first grey streak of dawn spread above Totapella Peak.
From The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon by Sir Samuel White Baker
What must have been Petrarch's horror at these unkennelled hounds!
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
He determined to leave all other objects, and consecrate every faculty of his mind to the unkennelling me from my hiding-place.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin
What, sir, do you mean at the unkennelling, untapezing, or earthing of the fox?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
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