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A circle of fence is humanity's oldest argument that some chaos just needs walls.
means To corral is to gather, pen, or herd people, animals, or things into a confined space or under control — and as a noun, it's the enclosure itself.
from Straight from Spanish 'corral,' a pen for livestock, which rode north with cattle ranching into American English in the 1800s. The Spanish word likely traces back to Vulgar Latin 'currale,' an enclosure for vehicles, rooted in Latin 'currus,' a cart or wagon — so a place where you parked your wheels became a place where you penned your beasts. It shares this ancestry with 'kraal,' the same word that traveled a different route through Portuguese into southern Africa.
- spanish root
- From corro, a ring, via Latin for runner
- wagon defense
- Pioneers circled wagons into a human-made corral
- o.k. corral
- Famous 1881 gunfight lasted barely 30 seconds
- verb form
- To corral now means herding people or stray ideas
the big corral — historic cattle pen in fort worth, texas, built in 1866 and still operates as a tourist attraction
corral de piedra — ancient stone-walled corral in northern argentina used for wild horse herding for over 300 years
fort laramie corral — preserved military horse corral in wyoming, built 1834, part of the oregon trail route