(n.) A collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single hut.
(n.) An inclosure into which are driven wild elephants which are to be tamed and educated.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 5% stratified random sample of homesteads was selected and five local interviewers surveyed 333 kraals, interviewing 333 individuals, obtaining information on 3368 live members of these homesteads.
(2) Finally, standing opposite a kraal, or livestock enclosure, the security manager pointed to an empty rondavel that was indistinguishable from all the rest.
(3) Substantial evidence is provided to corroborate our previous finding that Escherichia coli ribosomes recognize two binding sites on the 5' end of alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) RNA 4 [for a preliminary report see Castel, A., Kraal, B., Kerklaan, P. R. M., Klok, J., and Bosch, L. (1977) Proc.
(4) Improvements included "an expensive cattle kraal with a culvert and chicken run, a swimming pool, an amphitheatre [and] marquee area", as well as "extensive paving and the relocation of neighbours who used to form part of the original homestead".
(5) If you don’t like where you live, you don’t like your neighbours, if you’re bored of your small town and desperate for adventure; you want the gold of Eldorado or the tea in China or the spices of India or the humans of West Africa; or you’ve just always wanted to know the source of the Nile, you roll up your backpack, step out of your kraal, your arrondissement or your burgh and you set off into the unknown.