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corral
[ kuh-ral ]
noun
- an enclosure or pen for horses, cattle, etc.
- 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)
- to confine in or as if in a corral.
- Informal.
- to seize; capture.
- to collect, gather, or garner:
to corral votes.
- to form (wagons) into a corral.
corral
/ kɒˈrɑːl /
noun
- an enclosure for confining cattle or horses
- (formerly) a defensive enclosure formed by a ring of covered wagons
verb
- to drive into and confine in or as in a corral
- informal.to capture
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Origin of corral1
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Example Sentences
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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