Corral

/kəˈɹæl/ · noun

Meaning

An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one..

Definitions by Sense

1. An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
2. An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.
3. A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.
4. To capture or round up.
5. To place inside of a corral.
6. To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.

Example Sentences

We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama.

Please return the shopping carts to the corral.

The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Comanche attacks.

Between us, we managed to corral the puppies in the kitchen.

I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.

By the end of this year the work of 168 coal depots scattered throughout the Birmingham Division will have been coralled [sic] into about two dozen concentration depots.

They provide an unprecedented inside view of the continuing clampdown in Xinjiang, in which the authorities have corralled as many as a million ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and others into internment camps and prisons over the past three years.

After we corralled the last steer, we headed off to the chuck wagon for dinner.

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Word Forms

• corrals
• corraling
• corralling
• corraled
• corralled

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