Meaning
3 sensesTo capture or round up.
Between us, we managed to corral the puppies in the kitchen.
To place inside of a corral.
After we corralled the last steer, we headed off to the chuck wagon for dinner.
enclose in a corral
To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.
The cattle drivers corralled their wagons for the night.
arrange wagons so that they form a corral
Examples
13 sentencesNASA wants to corral an asteroid.
The ewes have their own corral.
The ewes were in the corral.
Ziri got the sheep in the corral.
The cows started running in the corral.
Translations
4 languagesOrigin
From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal.From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal.
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Forms
corrals, corraling, corraled, corraledWord family
1 related wordsDerivedcorraler
Lessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle