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单词 corral
释义

corral

/kəˈrɑːl /
verb (corrals, corralling, corralled) [with object]
1Gather together and confine (a group of people or things): the organizers were corralling the crowd into marching formation...
  • There was one debate over where they would all sleep and whether they would all be moved into particular areas so that they would be corralled together.
  • Cars, which run on a vegetable oil fuel called biodiesel, are corralled together instead of parked outside each residence.
  • I managed to get out just before the riot squad made a shield tunnel and corralled the crowd.
2chiefly North American Put or keep (livestock) in a corral: sheep and goats grazed the plains during the day but they were corralled at night...
  • I once read an article about a guy who corralled a herd of particularly wily mustangs by just quietly pushing them from 3 miles back.
  • Farmers were busy corralling animals that had climbed over snow banks and strayed from their land.
  • We went into the woods and beat the trees with sticks until all manner of livestock stampeded out and were corralled into our barn.

Synonyms

enclose, confine, lock up, shut up, shut in, fence in, pen (in), rail in, wall in, cage (in), coop up, mew in, kettle
2.1 historical Form (wagons) into a corral: the wagons, in forming the encampment, were corralled...
  • As the wagons were corralled into an even tighter circle at the Crescent, the Trust arrived like the cavalry in the nick of time.
  • Next day, Sully led his army back toward the corralled wagon train on Heart River, reaching the anxious civilians on the evening of July 31.
noun North American
1A pen for livestock, especially cattle or horses, on a farm or ranch: he was galloping a pony very fast round a tiny corral...
  • The Punchestown Boys rode into town saying they were going to build a corral for cattle and horses that would be good for the town.
  • The adult tick does not feed and may live in and around corrals, barns and cattle loafing areas for a year or more waiting to mate.
  • Solar-powered gates can be used at the end of residential driveways, on rural access roads, for livestock corrals, and in many other areas.

Synonyms

enclosure, pen, fold, compound, pound, stockade, paddock;
Scottish parrock;
South African kraal;
in South America potrero
1.1 historical A defensive enclosure formed of wagons in an encampment.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Spanish and Old Portuguese (now curral), perhaps based on Latin currere 'to run'. Compare with kraal.

Rhymes

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