(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.
Stockade
Definition:
(v. t.) A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification.
(v. t.) An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes.
(v. t.) To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s also great that we live in a world where people are free to be this incorrect without being hurled into stockades and mocked mercilessly as blithering idiots.
(2) The Creggan was famous for decades as the largest housing estate in the republican heartland of "Free Derry", one-time stockade of the IRA and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).
(3) Yes, Corbyn said that he and the party must “above all” talk to those beyond the tribal stockade and “reach out” to the broader electorate.
(4) For example, an article in the New Scientist claimed the "statistical stockade which has been erected to protect the policy of badger slaughter would embarrass an innumerate recruit to a kindergarten".
(5) She was born Hamburg in 1954, moved to eastern Germany as a small child, grew up behind a Soviet stockade and trained as a quantum chemist.
(6) White officers who didn't offer lifts to black marines were attacked, there was a major riot at the principal military prison, the Long Binh Stockade, in October 1968, and a critical inter-racial clash on the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier in October 1972.