kraal

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This kraal was a collection of huts surrounded by a slight thorn-fence, perhaps there were ten of them in all.

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  1. noun South African A rural village, typically consisting of huts surrounded by a stockade.
  2. noun South African An enclosure for livestock.

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  • In the middle of this kraal was a post about four feet high, with a piece of blood-bespattered limbo round the middle of it, and a broken calabash and a cow-elephant's tusk at its foot. —  Diary of a Soldier of Fortune
  • "It's about me going off my reservations as a comedian and wandering into a different bees-kraal," says Vlismas this week on the eve of the exhibition's opening. —  Tonight
  • "Any one approaching the kraal would be discovered by the warriors, and put to death to a certainty Why do you think that the kraal is to be attacked?" —  Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand
  • The size of the kraal was a matter of no consequence; and, of course, to save labour, a small one was constructed One point, however, was observed in making the kraal. —  The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
  • Nearly all my father's people having been killed, the few who remained were placed under Lukwazi, his kraal was the one on the top of the second ridge beyond the Ghoda. —  Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories
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  1. Afrikaans, from Portuguese curral, pen, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *currāle, enclosure for carts; see corral.

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  1. S. African D., perhaps from Spanish corral = Portuguese curral, a pen or inclosure for cattle, a fold: see corral. The name may have been picked up from the Portuguese. Otherwise a native African name.
  2. kraal, n. Compare corral, v.
 

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