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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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
Some readers are misled by the words in the latter passage: if his occulted guilt Do not itself unkennel in one speech, It is a damned ghost that we have seen.
From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley
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
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 John Glover
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 Arthur Stringer
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
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 Robert Chambers
They unkennelled at Punpernwood, four miles east of Blandford.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
During a period of repose a fox was unkennelled in thePage 433 neighbourhood of Corja, in Spain.
From Anecdotes of Dogs by Edward Jesse
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
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
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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