The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corral \Cor*ral"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corraled (-r?ld" or
-r?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Corralling.]
To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed
space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses
and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the
plains, but in the Southwestern United States now
colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning
of anything.
--Bartlett.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of corral English)
WordNet
See corral
n. a pen for cattle [syn: cow pen, cattle pen]
v. enclose in a corral; "corral the horses"
arrange wagons so that they form a corral
collect or gather; "corralling votes for an election"
[also: corralling, corralled]
Usage examples of "corralling".
Seay and myself put behind us the few miles between the two wagons, and dashed up to mine just as the outfit were corralling the remuda for night-horses.
On reaching our wagon, the boys were just corralling the saddle stock for their night-horses, when Sanders begged me to sell him two which had caught his fancy.
I think it’s kinda funny that Corsi put her with Blue and they wound up corralling the insect, that’s all.
Until we started corralling them, they didn’t even realize they’d done anything wrong.
I think it's kinda funny that Core-Breach put her with Blue and they wound up corralling the insect, that's all.
Until we started corralling them, they didn't even realize they'd done anything wrong.
Except, perhaps for the corralling of the village, everything they have done has been overdone.
There must, he imagined, be strong feelings concerning the corralling measure, but the few people about, except for one or two chatting pairs, had a rather noticeable air of minding their own business.
In the absence of instructions from my mentor Polyeidus, to whom I'd dispatched a messenger just the previous day, I was merely assuming that the old fast-and-vision method was the right one for corralling Pegasus.
He had not been born yet, but he remembered his father saying how relentless in corralling draft dodgers and shoving them into uniform the draft boards had been at that particular moment in American history.
The Others will be pushing closer to the People on the other side of the Big Ice, corralling them like deer for the slaughter.
Sanglier didn't bother to join any of them, not believing he had to gain support or manipulate opposition in advance of the actual session: sheep always followed a leader or the barking of a corralling dog and by now he knew how to become either, according to circumstance.