Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - corral
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Corral
corral
I. noun Etymology: Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *currale enclosure for vehicles, from Latin currus cart, from currere to run — more at car Date: 1582 1. a pen or enclosure for confining or capturing livestock 2. an enclosure made with wagons for defense of an encampment II. transitive verb (~led; ~ling) Date: 1847 1. to enclose in a ~ 2. to arrange (wagons) so as to form a ~ 3. collect, gather ~ling votes for the upcoming election
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n. & v. --n. 1 US a pen for cattle, horses, etc. 2 an enclosure for capturing wild animals. 3 esp. US hist. a defensive enclosure of wagons in an encampment. --v.tr. (corralled, corralling) 1 put or keep in a corral. 2 form (wagons) into a corral. 3 US colloq. acquire. Etymology: Sp. & OPort. (as KRAAL) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. загон для скота; загон для отлова диких зверей 2. заслон из обозных повозок 3. преим. ам. загонять в загон 4. окружать (лагерь) обозными повозками 5. разг. присваивать, завладевать; угонять ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) загон (для скота) 2) лагерь, окруженный обозными повозками (для заслона) 2. v. 1) загонять в загон 2) окружать лагерь повозками 3) coll. присваивать ...Англо-русский словарь
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(corrals) In North America, a corral is a space surrounded by a fence where cattle or horses are kept. N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
5.
~1 n an enclosed area where cattle, horses etc can be temporarily kept, especially in North America ~2 v -ll- 1 to make animals move into a corral (They corralled the cattle before loading them onto the truck.) 2 to keep people in a particular area in order to control them (They corralled the protesters, keeping them away from the president's car.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1582, from Sp. corro but origin uncertain. Perhaps ult. African, or from V.L. *currale "enclosure for vehicles," from L. currus "two-wheeled vehicle." The verb meaning "to lay hold of, collar," is U.S. slang from 1868. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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