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corral

[ kuh-ral ]

noun

  1. an enclosure or pen for horses, cattle, etc.
  2. 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)

, cor·ralled, cor·ral·ling.
  1. to confine in or as if in a corral.
  2. Informal.
    1. to seize; capture.
    2. to collect, gather, or garner:

      to corral votes.

  3. to form (wagons) into a corral.

corral

/ kɒˈrɑːl /

noun

  1. an enclosure for confining cattle or horses
  2. (formerly) a defensive enclosure formed by a ring of covered wagons


verb

  1. to drive into and confine in or as in a corral
  2. informal.
    to capture

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Word History and Origins

Origin of corral1

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 -al 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of corral1

C16: from Spanish, from Vulgar Latin currāle (unattested) area for vehicles, from Latin currus wagon, from currere to run

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Example Sentences

So imagine my surprise in 2006 — 27 years after the show shone for the last time in anything but reruns — when with my daughter on my shoulders, none other than Starsky pulled up next to me at a horse corral in Southern California.

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All of my daughters were obsessed with vaulting, a kind of gymnastics on horseback, and the sport took us all over the place, often to the edge of horse corrals to watch people flip and twist on and off the backs of trotting horses.

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For years, the Friends of Balboa Park and the Balboa Park Conservancy have separately worked to raise funds and corral volunteers to support the iconic park with a long list of needs.

He found the man in the driveway, standing by a pickup outside a corral.

The agency acknowledges that more than 160 containment structures have been built to corral spills since the late 1990s.

It looks like the shoot-out at the OK Corral in a leafy Eindhoven suburb—but nobody seems to be a very good shot.

And so the reaction seems to be to corral oneself off from disagreement.

How can you corral all your health data in one central repository—effortlessly?

And in the land of livestock and grassland and corral and endless highway, that is more or less everything.

Senator Paul also scorned “labels” and the tendency to corral politicians and thinkers into neat, ideological camps.

A little corral for the sheep, and a rough shed for the pony, and the home was complete: far the prettiest home they had ever had.

Wal, then he walked up and down, up and down (this all happened out by the calf-corral), and blowed and blowed and blowed.

There was an adobe house on the flat, a corral, and other evidences of a rather extensive ranch.

The plows are by the corral, and the first team that comes up is to be harnessed to each in turn.

Tom was her elder brother and as the girls walked toward the ranch house he crossed the yard from the corral.

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