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   corral

   /kəˈrɑːl/

   verb

   • 1. gather together and confine (a group of people or things): "the organizers were corralling the crowd into marching formation"
   • 2. put or keep (livestock) in a corral: North American "sheep and goats grazed the plains during the day but they were corralled at night"
   • ▪ form (wagons) into a corral: historical "the wagons, in forming the encampment, were corralled"

   noun

   • 1. a pen for livestock, especially cattle or horses, on a farm or ranch: North American "he was galloping a pony very fast round a tiny corral"
   • ▪ a defensive enclosure formed of wagons in an encampment. North American

   Word Origin late 16th century: from Spanish and Old Portuguese (now curral), perhaps based on Latin currere ‘to run’. Compare with kraal.

   Scrabble Points: 8

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