What does "corral" mean?

An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.

What is a synonym for "corral"?

Common synonyms include: accumulate, acquire, agglomerate, aggregate, aggroup, amass.

/kəˈɹæl/ name, noun, verb

name, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level

Noun

1
An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
"We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama."
2
a pen for cattle wordnet
3
An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.
"Please return the shopping carts to the corral."
4
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."

Verb

1
To capture or round up.
"Between us, we managed to corral the puppies in the kitchen."
2
gather and secure wordnet
3
To place inside of a corral.
"After we corralled the last steer, we headed off to the chuck wagon for dinner."
4
arrange wagons so that they form a corral wordnet
5
To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.
"The cattle drivers corralled their wagons for the night."

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Proper Noun

"NASA wants to corral an asteroid."

From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal.