unkennel

unkennel
/un ken"l/, v., unkenneled, unkenneling or (esp. Brit.) unkennelled, unkennelling.
v.t.
1. to drive (a fox or other animal) from a den or lair.
2. to release from or as if from a kennel: to unkennel hounds before a hunt; to unkennel a gang of cutthroats.
3. to make known; disclose or uncover.
v.i.
4. to come out of a kennel, den, lair, or the like.
[1570-80; UN-2 + KENNEL1]

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