corral
Collocations
4ADJ.
against, managed, own, small, together, unruly
VERB + CORRAL
couldn't, formed, need, police, running, separated, train, tried
CORRAL + NOUN
asteroid, cattle, puppies
PREP.
in, in, into, out
Definitions
noun
An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama.
An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.
Please return the shopping carts to the corral.
A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.
The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Comanche attacks.
verb
To capture or round up.
Between us, we managed to corral the puppies in the kitchen.
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.
To place inside of a corral.
After we corralled the last steer, we headed off to the chuck wagon for dinner.
To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.
The cattle drivers corralled their wagons for the night.
name
A surname.
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6We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama.
WiktionaryPlease return the shopping carts to the corral.
WiktionaryThe wagon train formed a corral to protect against Comanche attacks.
WiktionaryBetween us, we managed to corral the puppies in the kitchen.
WiktionaryI 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 Mohai
WiktionaryBy the end of this year the work of 168 coal depots scattered throughout the Birmingham Division will have been coralled [sic] into about two dozen concentration depots.
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