corral
/kəˈɹæl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.06 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
noun
An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama."
- "Please return the shopping carts to the corral."
- "The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Comanche attacks."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: corral
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
corraler
corraller