corral

CEFRB2

/kəˈɹæl/

noun · verb

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.
An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.
An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.

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By the end of this year the work of 168 coal depots scattered throughout the Birmingham Division will have been coralled [sic] into about two dozen concentration depots.
1964 March, “News and Comment: Coal concentration in Birmingham”, in Modern Railways, page 152
I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
They provide an unprecedented inside view of the continuing clampdown in Xinjiang, in which the authorities have corralled as many as a million ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and others into internment camps and prisons over the past three years.
2019 November 16, Austin Ramzy, Chris Buckley, “‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims”, in New York Times

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From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal.