corral

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.

   • We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama.
2. 2

   An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.

   • Please return the shopping carts to the corral.
3. 3

   A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.

   • The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Comanche attacks.
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   1. 4

      To capture or round up.

      • Between us, we managed to corral the puppies in the kitchen.
      • 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.
   2. 5

      To place inside of a corral.

      • After we corralled the last steer, we headed off to the chuck wagon for dinner.
   3. 6

      To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.

      • The cattle drivers corralled their wagons for the night.
   4. 7

      A surname.

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