Sentence:  A biting wind whistled through the streets, the pavements were dotted with umbrella-laden figures, the <WSD>kennels</WSD> ran like mill-sluices, while the roads were only a succession of lamp-lit puddles through which the wheeled traffic splashed continuously. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A gutter at the edge of a street; an open sewer.