kraal

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   In Central and Southern Africa, a small rural community.

   • Onanis is the permanent residence of a kraal of very poor Hill-Damaras, who subsist chiefly upon the few wild roots which their sterile neighborhood produces.
   • ‘The paraffin box covered with newsprint, and the primus, and the bucket standing on the floor, and a photo of our kraal’s chief on the wall.’
2. 2

   In Central and Southern Africa, a rural village of huts surrounded by a stockade.

   • A kraal was a homestead and usually included a simple fenced-in enclosure for animals, fields for growing crops, and one or more thatched huts.
3. 3

   An enclosure for livestock.

   • The animal, which is now six years old, was born naturally from the mating of a female goat with a male sheep sharing the same kraal.
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   1. 4

      To enclose (livestock) within a kraal or stockade.

      • […] he knew that one of these beasts was in the habit of harassing the goat-kids, which, for better security, he had kraaled against the wall of the house.

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