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
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.
"Come on, my lads!" vociferated Blueskin, "we'll unkennel the old fox."
From Jack Sheppard A Romance by Ainsworth, William Harrison
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 Simms, William Gilmore
It is the intention of the first consul gradually to unkennel this clattering race of females, when it can be done with safety.
From The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir
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
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
What must have been Petrarch's horror at these unkennelled hounds!
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
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
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
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)
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 Stanley, Edward
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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