a circular enclosure formed by wagons during an encampment, as by covered wagons crossing the North American plains in the 19th century, for defense against attack.
verb (used with object)
3.
to confine in or as if in a corral.
4.
Informal.
a.
to seize; capture.
b.
to collect, gather, or garner: to corral votes.
5.
to form (wagons) into a corral.
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Corralledis always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
So is ort. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Origin: 1575–85; < Spanish < Late Latin *currāle enclosure for carts, equivalent to Latin curr(us) wagon, cart (derivative of currere to run) + -āle, neuter of -ālis-al1