(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.
Worral
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Worrel
Example Sentences:
(1) In my little autograph book are Gary Rhodes , Antony Worrall Thompson and Angela Hartnett .
(2) A spokeswoman for the council said that Citizens Advice was offered a chance to re-bid for the funding but declined, a version of events hotly disputed by Betts and Worrall.
(3) Sarah Worrall and Flo Betts, whose Citizens Advice bureau serves Ladywood, will be out of work next month after the service lost £600,000 in council funding.
(4) But the BBC don't make any weekend kids' magazine shows now; they give us Antony Worrall Thompson doing pork three ways.
(5) Finance boss Bob Mellors, who retired on health grounds last month had been at the company since 2002, and was previously at accountant Eacott Worrall where Sports Direct first became a client in 1982.
(6) Antony Worrall Thompson said Floyd helped Britons enjoy food.
(7) The offices are in the already completed Mayo building, named after the chemist William Worrall Mayo, who founded the US not-for-profit Mayo Clinic, now one of the world's most presitgious healthcare providers.