Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An enclosure for confining livestock.
- noun An enclosure formed by a circle of wagons for defense against attack during an encampment.
- transitive verb To drive into and hold in a corral.
- transitive verb To arrange (wagons) in a corral.
- transitive verb To take control or possession of.
- transitive verb To gather; garner.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Florida and the West Indies, a pen near the shore where sponges are macerated in the course of cleaning them for market. Sometimes colloquially contracted to crawl. See
kraal . - To drive into a corral; inclose aud secure in a corral, as live stock.
- To capture; make prisoner of; take possession of; appropriate; scoop: as, they corralled the whole outfit—that is, captured them all.
- Figuratively, to corner; leave no escape to in discussion; corner in argument.
- To form into a corral; form a corral or inclosure by means of. See extract.
- noun A pen or inclosure for horses or cattle.
- noun An inclosure, usually a wide circle, formed of the wagons of an ox- or mule-train by emigrants crossing the plains, for encampment at night, or in case of attack by Indians, the horses and cattle grazing within the circle. See
corral , v. t. - noun A strong stockade or inclosure for capturing wild elephants in Ceylon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything.
- noun A pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for horses, cattle, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
enclosure forlivestock , especially acircular one. - noun An
enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group. - noun A
circle ofwagons , either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense. - verb To
capture orround up . - verb To place
inside of a corral. - verb To make a
circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb enclose in a corral
- noun a pen for cattle
- verb collect or gather
- verb arrange wagons so that they form a corral
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I slide the negatives back into the envelope and head back to the word corral.
Occupational Hazards Jonathan Segura 2008
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I slide the negatives back into the envelope and head back to the word corral.
Occupational Hazards Jonathan Segura 2008
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Jup understood the word corral, which had been frequently pronounced before him, and it may be remembered, too, that he had often driven the cart thither in company with Pencroft.
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Jup understood the word corral, which had been frequently pronounced before him, and it may be remembered, too, that he had often driven the cart thither in company with Pencroft.
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The corral is at the head of a steep little canyon or gulch, back in the hills where all these bigger canyons head.
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Jup understood the word corral, which had been frequently pronounced before him, and it may be remembered, too, that he had often driven the cart thither in company with Pencroft.
The Secret of the Island Jules Verne 1866
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But instead of what's known as a chemo "corral" -- often a windowless infusion room with several patients clustered around a nurse's station -- she settles into a comfortable recliner in a private infusion bay at the new Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center.
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He runs the camel corral, which is this big fenced area where all the camels chill out.
Jonesy's Rhino Mike Lynch 2011
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She had stopped them from galloping down the lane, but herding them back into the corral was another thing.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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She had stopped them from galloping down the lane, but herding them back into the corral was another thing.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
kmassie commented on the word corral
From the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Pg.73
"In a way, that's a plus because at least she can be counted on to corral us around to places on time whereas we haven't seen Haymitch since he agreed to help us on the train."
November 29, 2010
shanvrolijk commented on the word corral
" it’s no more than a high-toned commonplace book, corralling quotations from Connolly’s mid-war reading"
Source: The times Literary supplement
gather
January 22, 2018