corral

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
    — We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama.
  2. An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.
    — Please return the shopping carts to the corral.
  3. A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.
    — The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Comanche attacks.
动词 v.
  1. To capture or round up.
    — Between us, we managed to corral the puppies in the kitchen.
  2. To place inside of a corral.
    — After we corralled the last steer, we headed off to the chuck wagon for dinner.
  3. To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.
    — The cattle drivers corralled their wagons for the night.

词形变化

corrals plural corrals present,singular,third-person corraling US,participle,present corralling UK,participle,present corraled US,participle,past corraled US,past corralled UK,participle,past corralled UK,past

词汇关系

衍生词
fish corral turtle-corral corraler corraller
相关词
crawl kraal

词源

词源 1
From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal.
词源 2
From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal.
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