Chiefly U.S. [f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To form (wagons) into a corral. Hence Corralled ppl. a.
1851. Mayne Reid, Scalp Hunt., iii. The camp, with its corralled waggons.
1868. Dilke, Greater Brit., I. I. xiii. 143. As many wagons as there were fires were corralled in an ellipse about the road.
2. To shut up in, or as in, a corral; to confine.
1847. Ruxton, Adv. Mexico, 247 (Bartlett). The animals were all collected and corralled.
1890. E. N. Buxton, in 19th Cent., No. 162. 224. At night … they coral their flocks of goats.
1890. T. H. Mann, in Century Mag., Aug., 613/1. Here they corralled us [prisoners] to the number of seven or eight thousand.
3. U. S. colloq. or slang. To secure, lay hold of, seize, capture, ‘collar.’
1868. Amer. Newspaper, in Dilke, Greater Brit., I. 160. ‘These leeches corral more clear cash than most quartz mills,’ remonstrates the editor.
1885. F. D. Millet, in Harper’s Mag., April, 663/2. We dashed out of the door, corralled a porter.
1888. F. Wilkeson, in N. Y. Times, 30 Dec., 13/5. We will corral some of the ice cream and cake.
