Other forms: corrals, corralled, corralling
A corral is a fenced pen for horses or cattle. Drive them into the corral, the corral gate, a dusty corral.
It is round or oval rather than square, because animals driven into a corner injure themselves and each other. As a verb it means to gather and confine — corral the children. The word came into English from Spanish in the American west.
1nouncorralA fenced pen for horses or cattle.
“The cowboys drove the horses into the corral for the night.”
2verbgatherTo gather and confine.
“The teacher corralled the excited children into a line by the bus.”
corral is an enclosure.
From Spanish corral, an enclosure. Kraal, from Afrikaans, is the same word by another route.
Spanish
corral
English, today
corral
From Spanish corral. a doublet of kraal.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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