▪ I. † kennet1 Obs.
Also 4–5 kenet, 5 -it.
[a. ONF. kennet = OF. chienet, etc. (Godef.), dim. of chien dog.]
A small dog, used in hunting.
| 13.. Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1701 A kenet kryes þerof, þe hunt on hym calles. ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 122 The Romaynes..Cowchide as kenetez before þe kynge selvyne. c 1425 Seven Sag. (P.) 1740 The lord a lytyl kenet hadde. 1486 Bk. St. Albans F iv b, Theis be the namys of houndes..Rachys, Kenettys, Terroures. 1602 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. ii. v. 870 My father..keepes an open table for all kinde of dogges... He hath your..Leurier, your Spaniell, your Kennets. 1614 Bk. Hauking in Strutt Sports & Past. i. i. (1801) 17 Lemors, kenets, terrours. |
▪ II. † kennet2 Obs. rare.
Also 5 kannette, 6 kenet(te.
[prob. a. ONF. *canette, *kenette = OF. chenette (one example in Godef.), f. L. cānus hoary: cf. ONF. canu, kenu, F. chenu:—*cānūtus.]
A kind of grey cloth.
| 1480 Caxton Ovid's Met. xiv. xii. 63 b/1 Wel semed he for age to tremble & had made his hed lyke as hit had been of kannette. 1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 3 A certayne kinde..of walshe clothes called whytes, russettes, and kenettes. [In Poulton kennets: hence in Blount, Phillips, etc.] |
b. Comb. † kennet-colour a., grey-coloured.
| 1530 Palsgr. 235/2 Kenet coloure, cendré. |
▪ III. [kennet Naut.
Error for kevel (q.v.), in Kersey's Phillips 1706, whence in Bailey, Chambers, Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Century Dict., etc.
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