English

Noun

corral ‎(plural corrals)

1. An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.

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

2. An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.

   Please return the shopping carts to the corral.

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

   The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Commanche attacks.

Translations

Synonyms

• (livestock enclosure): pen, stockade

See also

• crawl (Jamaican English)
• kraal (South African English)

Verb

corral ‎(third-person singular simple present corrals, present participle corralling, simple past and past participle corralled)

1. To capture or round up.

   The lawyer frantically tried to corral his notes as his briefcase fell open.‎

   Between us, we managed to corral the puppy in the kitchen.‎

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:

     I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.

2. To place inside of a corral.

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

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

   The cattle drivers corralled their wagons for the night.‎

Translations

Anagrams

• Carrol

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ko̞ˈra̠l]
• See also: coral

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *currale ‎(“place for keeping a chariot”), from currus ‎(“chariot”).

Noun

corral m ‎(plural corrales)

1. (cattle) corral, enclosure

   pollos de corral - "free-range chickens"

Derived terms

• acorralar
• Corralejo
• corralito
• tecorral

Synonyms

• cercado

See also

• alambre de púas
• alambrado
• cerca
• malla ciclónica
• vallado

Anagrams

• clorar