An enclosure for horses or cattle. Sp.
1845. (June 25.) On the eastern side [of the fort] is an additional wall, connected at its extremities with the first, enclosing ground for stables and carrell.—Joel Palmer, ‘Journal,’ p. 28 (Cincinn., 1847).
1846. The wagons, in forming the encampment, were what is called corraled, an anglicised Spanish word, the significance of which, in our use of the term, is, that they were formed in a circle…. A Spanish corral is a common cattle or horse pound.—E. Bryant, ‘What I saw in California,’ p. 33 (N.Y.). (Italics in the original.)
1847. Amongst the trees, in open spaces, were drawn up the waggons, formed into a corral or square, and close together, so that the whole made a most formidable fort, and, when filled with some hundred rifles, could defy the attacks of Indians or Mexicans.—G. F. Ruxton, ‘Adventures in Mexico,’ pp. 174–5 (Bartlett).
1850. A “Corral” is an inclosure where horses are kept or tamed, and branded with the owner’s mark.—James L. Tyson, ‘Diary in California,’ p. 72 n. (N.Y.).
1853. How many complaints have been made to me by men who have had their horses stolen out of their stables, or out of their carals, or of clothes being taken from the line. The reason why people lose their property is because they do not watch it.—Brigham Young, May 8: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ i. 108.
1853. Build a strong fort, and a corral, to put your cattle in, that the Indians cannot get them away from you.—Brigham Young, July 31: id., i. 166.
1860. By forming a semicircle and moving gently forwards, we drove the horse before us, and finally he walked into the corral, as we wished.—T. H. Hittell, ‘Adventures of J. C. Adams,’ p. 247 (S.F.).
