(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.
Wagon
Definition:
(n.) A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.
(n.) A freight car on a railway.
(n.) A chariot
(n.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.
(v. t.) To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.
(v. i.) To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs.
Example Sentences:
(1) You wrote I Will Always Love You for Porter Wagoner, even though he had sued you.
(2) The danger is, in the face of western criticism and in the strong belief they have done more than most of their neighbours to be progressive, that they will now circle the wagons.
(3) Samples of fresh grass, wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in a stack silo and cut with either a cylinder-type forage harvester (11.3 mm of length cut) or a self-loading wagon (42.4 mm of length cut), wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in large round bales, and grass hay were obtained from the same field and used for determination of DM and CP degradability.
(4) Tractors accounted for one half of these machinery-related deaths, followed by farm wagons, combines, and forklifts.
(5) Individuals have decided to abandon their own families and jump on the Mandela wagon.
(6) Rail privatisation also saw the end of much domestic locomotive, wagon and carriage building – more workers on the scrapheap, more imports to further transform the balance of payments into a horror story.
(7) Although Knoller and the other young people in the wagon took it in turns to sit and stand, their efforts proved insufficient.
(8) "The meaning of the elections is: Italy can play a role; Italy is not the last wheel of the wagon; Italy is not the bottom of the class.
(9) The train now trundles through silent stations, its wagons free of the crowds of men, women and children who once clung to roofs and ladders.
(10) "The trains had 10 wagons and 100 people squeezed into each one," he says.
(11) If the wagons do start rolling in, I think there will be a massive upsurge,” he says.
(12) Nato thought better of hitching its wagon to the star of the hot-headed Georgian president.
(13) Gulnara Suleymanova and her family of five live in a wagon behind Baku’s prestigious new sports stadium, built especially for next month’s European Games.
(14) The wounded were being loaded into wagons; Wilfred managed to scramble up.
(15) If you then get the right of the party behaving in that way, that’s when you get real trouble and that’s the risk we’ve got at the moment: that there are some in the party all circling the wagon against Jeremy’s campaign.
(16) Secret Trump voters reverse their support: 'He seems to be insane' Read more As the Washington pundits and pollsters wrote them off, there was a sense of circling the wagons.
(17) She had become Snowflake’s unofficial welcome wagon, local therapist and advocate.
(18) "When resources are tight and all our inclinations are to pull the corporate wagons into a circle and fight to defend our own vested interests, that is exactly the time when we need to be at our boldest and most imaginative," he said.
(19) He was bundled into a wooden box which Roland had built specially for the job and then carried in a hand wagon to his Audi 8 car.
(20) 5.48pm BST Summary of today's events: - 196 bodies being stored in refrigerated railway wagons in Torez.