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corral - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

corral (plural corrals)

• 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

corral (third-person singular simple present corrals, present participle (US) corraling or (UK) corralling, simple past and past participle (US) corraled or (UK) corralled)

• 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.¹
  • ✤ By 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.²
  • ✤ They provide an unprecedented inside view of the continuing clampdown in Xinjiang, in which the authorities have corralled as many as a million ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and others into internment camps and prisons over the past three years.³
• 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.

Etymology

From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kəˈɹæl/, /kəˈɹɑːl/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊
• Audio (US): 🔊
• Rhymes: -æl
• Hyphenation: cor‧ral

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC: ↩

2. 1964 March, “News and Comment: Coal concentration in Birmingham”, in Modern Railways, page 152: ↩

3. 2019 November 16, Austin Ramzy, Chris Buckley, “‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims”, in New York Times ‎${}^{[1]}$: ↩

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