n. A pen or inclosure for horses or cattle.n. An inclosure, usually a wide circle, formed of the wagons of an ox- or mule-train by emigrants crossing the plains, for encampment at night, or in case of attack by Indians, the horses and cattle grazing within the circle. See corral, v. t.n. A strong stockade or inclosure for capturing wild elephants in Ceylon.To drive into a corral; inclose aud secure in a corral, as live stock.To capture; make prisoner of; take possession of; appropriate; scoop: as, they corralled the whole outfit—that is, captured them all.Figuratively, to corner; leave no escape to in discussion; corner in argument.To form into a corral; form a corral or inclosure by means of. See extract.n. In Florida and the West Indies, a pen near the shore where sponges are macerated in the course of cleaning them for market. Sometimes colloquially contracted to crawl. See kraal.