corraln.
/kɒˈrɑːl//kɒˈral//kəˈrɑːl//kəˈral/ a. An enclosure or pen for horses, cattle, etc.; a fold; a stockade. (Chiefly in Spanish America and U.S.). Cf. kraal n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal enclosure or house general > [noun] > enclosure > fold or pen
folda700
lockeOE
pen1227
foldingc1440
pend1542
cub1548
hull1570
corral1582
boolya1599
ree1674
crew1681
reeve1720
stell1766
pound1779
kraal1796
fank1812
poundage1866
forcing-yard1890
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias A iij a To be as it wer in one Corall, and vnder one Pastour or Shepheard.
1825 A. Caldcleugh Trav. S. Amer. I. ix. 263 Catching the horses in his coral.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. iv. 74 To drive all the cattle and horses into the ‘corral’. Note, The corral is an enclosure made of tall and strong stakes.
1887 M. Roberts Western Avernus 5 Building sheep ‘corrals’ or pens of heaped, thorny mesquite brush.
b. An enclosure formed of wagons in an encampment, for defence against attack.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > laager > [noun]
wagon-borough1548
corral1847
laager1941
1847 G. F. Ruxton Adventures Mexico & Rocky Mts. 177 The waggons formed into a corral or square, and close together, so that the whole made a most formidable fort.
1859 R. B. Marcy Prairie Traveler xi. 55 [He] will..form his wagons into a circle or ‘corral’, with the animals toward the centre.
c. An enclosure for capturing wild animals; e.g. wild elephants in Ceylon.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > enclosure > for catching elephants
corral1785
keddah1799
kraal1891
1785 European Mag. 8 360 A certain korahl,..in which most of the elephants in Ceylon are caught.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. viii. 175 A troop of wild young horses is driven into the corral, or large enclosure of stakes.
1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. viii. iv. 348 In constructing the corral, collecting the elephants..and conducting all the laborious operations of the capture.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
corralv.
/kɒˈrɑːl//kɒˈral//kəˈrɑːl//kəˈral/ Chiefly U.S.
1.
a. transitive. To form (wagons) into a corral.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > laager > [verb (transitive)]
corral1846
laager1879
1846 E. Bryant Jrnl. 22 May in What I saw in California (1848) iii. 33 The wagons, in forming the encampment, were what is called corraled, an anglicised Spanish word, the significance of which, in our use of the term, is, that they were formed in a circle.
1868 C. W. Dilke Greater Brit. I. i. xiii. 160 As many wagons as there were fires were corralled in an ellipse about the road.
b. absol. To draw up the wagons in a circle.
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a1848 G. F. Ruxton Life in Far West (1849) 12 It was pretty nigh upon sundown, and Bill had just sung out to ‘corral’.
1875 Fur, Fin & Feather 108 At midnight the rear drivers joyously see the little fires flashing up far ahead here and there upon the prairie, telling them that the head of the train has begun to corral.
1894 in Kansas Hist. Coll. (1896) V. 93 Several trains were compelled to corral and ‘stand them [sc. Indians] off’ until relieved by the dragoons.
2. To shut up in, or as in, a corral; to confine.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > drive or put into enclosure
parc1300
foldc1440
house1578
pinfold1605
pen1607
enfold?1611
impen?1623
to get in1698
weara1724
yard1758
to run in1837
corral1847
paddock1847
kraal1865
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > confine [verb (transitive)]
beloukOE
loukOE
sparc1175
pena1200
bepen?c1225
pind?c1225
prison?c1225
spearc1300
stopc1315
restraina1325
aclosec1350
forbara1375
reclosea1382
ward1390
enclose1393
locka1400
reclusea1400
pinc1400
sparc1430
hamperc1440
umbecastc1440
murea1450
penda1450
mew?c1450
to shut inc1460
encharter1484
to shut up1490
bara1500
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hema1552
impound1562
strain1566
chamber1568
to lock up1568
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cage1577
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coop1583
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pound1589
imprisonc1595
encloister1596
button1598
immure1598
seclude1598
uplock1600
stow1602
confine1603
jail1604
hearse1608
bail1609
hasp1620
cub1621
secure1621
incarcera1653
fasten1658
to keep up1673
nun1753
mope1765
quarantine1804
peg1824
penfold1851
encoop1867
oubliette1884
jigger1887
corral1890
maroon1904
to bang up1950
to lock down1971
1847 G. F. Ruxton Adventures Mexico & Rocky Mts. 238 The animals were all collected and coralled.
1890 E. N. Buxton in 19th Cent. No. 162. 224 At night..they coral their flocks of goats.
1890 Cent. Mag. Aug. 613/1 Here they coralled us [prisoners] to the number of seven or eight thousand.
3. U.S. colloquial or slang. To secure, lay hold of, seize, capture, ‘collar’.
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the mind > possession > taking > seizing > catching or capture > catch or capture [verb (transitive)]
i-lecchec1000
fang1016
hentOE
takeOE
alatchlOE
catchc1275
wina1300
to take ina1387
attain1393
geta1400
overhent?a1400
restay?a1400
seizea1400
tachec1400
arrest1481
carrya1500
collara1535
snap1568
overgo1581
surprise1592
nibble1608
incaptivate1611
nicka1640
cop1704
chop1726
nail1735
to give a person the foot1767
capture1796
hooka1800
sniba1801
net1803
nib1819
prehend1831
corral1860
rope1877
1860 Knickerbocker Jan. 100 I want to ‘corel’ you for a little chat.
1866 Owyhee Avalanche (Silver City, Idaho Territory) 18 Aug. 3/2 These leeches corral more clear cash than most quartz mills.
1867 ‘M. Twain’ Celebrated Jumping Frog 157 That sort of thing would corral their sympathies.
1885 Harper's Mag. Apr. 663/2 We dashed out of the door, corralled a porter.
1888 N.Y. Times 30 Dec. We will corral some of the ice cream.
1910 P. G. Wodehouse Psmith in City viii. 64 How did we corral him, and become to him practically as long-lost sons?
1965 Economist 23 Jan. 322/1 The whip is charged theoretically with the duty of corraling votes for party programmes.
Derivatives
corralled adj.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > laager > [adjective]
corralled1851
laagered1881
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. iii. 31 The camp, with its corralled waggons.
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