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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Here, here, here be my keys: ascend my chambers; search, seek, find out: I’ll warrant we’ll unkennel the fox.
From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge
If we cannot unkennel the fox," he said, "we will at least earth him up.
From Windsor Castle by Ainsworth, William Harrison
I 'll unkennel one example more for thee.
From The White Devil by Webster, John
When they unkennel a lion or a tiger, they pursue him till he stops to defend himself.
From Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits by Landseer, T.
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
The whimpering of one of his unkenneled "hunches" merged into what seemed an actual voice of inspiration to him.
From Never-Fail Blake by Stringer, Arthur
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 Lazarus, Emma
If I were Lord Jedburg, I'd have unkennelled him, I promise you that, Simmy.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James
I have no recollection how the papers found their way into the old trunk from which they were lately unkennelled.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435 Volume 17, New Series, May 1, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
During a period of repose a fox was unkennelled in thePage 433 neighbourhood of Corja, in Spain.
From Anecdotes of Dogs by Jesse, Edward
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 Baker, Samuel White, Sir
They unkennelled at Punpernwood, four miles east of Blandford.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
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 Godwin, William
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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