(n.) A pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for horses, cattle, etc.
(v. t.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The packets were removed on the 100th day of gestation, and the females were allowed to give birth in their outdoor corral.
(2) Photograph: Barry J Holmes for the Observer At the other end of Tulare County’s 4,800 square miles, Chris Kemper is the principal of the poorest school in California: Stone Corral Elementary.
(3) 3.04am BST Spurs 42-28 Heat, 4:39 remaining, 2nd quarter Rashard Lewis throws a terrible, terrible Favrian interception that Tim Duncan corrals.
(4) Cathal Yeats, chief inspector of the Royal Gibraltar Police, said the flotilla crossed into Gibraltarian waters before being "corralled" out again.
(5) Speaking ahead of a meeting this evening at which the Lib Dem deputy prime minister will seek to corral colleagues behind the proposals, Lady Williams said Lib Dems "have to vote for this policy", though she conceded it had been a "mistake" for Lib Dem MPs, including Clegg, to have signed a pre-election pledge to oppose any increase in fees.
(6) Gorbachev gave two examples of Putin's incipient totalitarianism: United Russia , the party he created to corral political support for the Kremlin, a creation which Gorbachev described as a bad copy of the Soviet communist party; and Putin's decision in 2004 to eliminate elections for regional governors and mayors of Moscow and St Petersburg.
(7) The conditioned corral preference paradigm was used to assess reinforcing effects of substance P (SP) and its N- and C-terminal fragments injected unilaterally into the region of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis (NBM) in rats.
(8) The agency released an animated video depicting how a space rock measuring about 9 meters wide would be captured and corralled for study.
(9) Located in San Francisco , the office is the latest effort in the campaign's bid to harness Silicon Valley's talent and to corral the region's billions into its presidential re-election machine.
(10) Naomi Woodley (@naomiwoodley) Journos on the Abbott campaign corralled into an empty office in QLD police headquarters.
(11) It now seems likely that £2bn of money largely already pledged by the government for green projects will be corralled into a watered-down green fund.
(12) But they are not really expanding property rights," says Javier Corrales, a political science professor at Amherst College in the US.
(13) The case is being brought by Lois Austin, one of about 3,000 anti-globalisation demonstrators corralled by police at Oxford Circus in May 2001, the first major protest where the tactic was used.
(14) Factors that may have accounted for this rapid spread included common water troughs, open corrals, and inability of the dairy operator to isolate cows due to lack of space.
(15) If Women Together can be encouraged to break out of the corral of official party and trade union lines then, regardless of the outcome of the referendum, we have a legacy upon which to build a stronger political voice for women in Scotland .
(16) On the streets, campaigners were corralled by police into “ first amendment areas ”, while on the internet, a similar divide grew up in a more organic manner.
(17) A cure for the ailing church “would require a much deeper ecclesial comprehension than the present leadership currently exhibit … There seems to be no sagacity, serious science or spiritual substance to the curatives being offered.” Rather, he says, the church “is being slowly kettled into becoming a suburban sect, corralling its congregations, controlling its clergy and centralising its communication.
(18) He said it was a “surprisingly good” deal but probably the result of a friendly chat rather than “gunfight at the OK Corral”.
(19) Conversely, the prevalence of antibodies to C. burneti was highest (40%) among employees working in the corrals and who were exposed to dust and hides.
(20) Progeny of wild females collected from corrals or human bait were reared in an insectary.
Crawl
Definition:
(v. i.) To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
(v. i.) to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.
(v. i.) To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
(v. i.) To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.
(n.) The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.
(n.) A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 30%, 60% and 100% plasma, crawling-like movements progressively increased, motility rose (at 30%) and then fell slightly (at 100%) while adhesiveness did not change.
(2) You’d think such a spry, successful man would busy himself with other things besides crawling into a pile of stuffed animals to scare his daughter’s date.
(3) Protesters crawl out from the tents they have pitched on the cobblestones and huddle in the cold around makeshift fires, as volunteers distribute hot tea and soup.
(4) Alonso, after hitting the wall and being catapulted airborne, landed upside down in his McLaren before crawling out of his car.
(5) Based on a single 20-s recovery VO2, the swimmers' VO2 max was correlated with performance in a 400-yd (365.8-m) front crawl swim.
(6) A decision to wean a child may be made if the child can crawl, walk, or has a good set of erupted milk teeth, even if the child has not reached the traditional weaning age of 20-24 months.
(7) A host of activities are on offer, from barbecue or pizza parties to bar crawls, and guests are welcome to visit the community projects that Backpack sponsors, including vegetable gardens, knitting and football for kids.
(8) They were the same two men who greeted Abu Ali as he crawled through a hole in the border fence to freedom on the night of 25 May 2015, just over four months after he had entered Isis territory.
(9) Some were wearing nappies despite being of school age, and appeared to crawl upstairs using their hands rather than walking.
(10) Wanda Mintz said her nephew tried to crawl away but could not move because of his wounds.
(11) What made this so troubling he said, is that digital spiders could then crawl the web and find every picture in the public domain and match it with an identity.
(12) So all these things are going through your head as I'm on my belly crawling to get underneath this shutter.
(13) She stumbled to her door, but found she could not walk out; she had to crawl as the ground swayed beneath her.
(14) The Tower’s steps are covered in golden slime, and on its walls crawls a “rich greenlike moss” that inscribes letters and words on the masonry – before entering and authoring the bodies of the explorers themselves.
(15) The DOJ generally has to go crawling to Wall Street, tentatively striking deals that won't hurt financial reputations too badly and the bottom line hardly at all.
(16) I remember crawling out of it – because by that time I was too weak to walk, but I couldn’t bear to stay among the corpses any longer – and bumping into a neighbour who was as surprised to see me as I was her.
(17) Elevated concentrations of the soil fungi were significantly (P = 0.05) associated with the dirt floor, crawl-space type of basement.
(18) (Oh wow, note to self: trademark a version of American Football where players have to crawl or walk on their hands.)
(19) In the transition from quiescent state to crawling, the pattern recorded in nerves and connectives changes from short-duration bursts in many units to the 60-100 sec cycle of events recorded during tethered crawling in the semi-intact snail.
(20) These results, interpreted through Ayres' sensory integration theory and applied to current occupational therapy practice, support Farber's hypothesized importance of early crawling experience in the development of sensory and motor systems of the body and general motor skill development.