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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
corral .
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Examples
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It deflected off the stick of Nashville defenseman Andy Delmore, Begin corraled it and beat Vokoun to the glove side.
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Brevet Captain E.R. P. Shurley (whom the writer knew as post-adjutant in Camp Douglas, Illinois, and who was wounded in the war) was suddenly attacked on Goose Creek; he was desperately wounded, and his command was surrounded and "corraled" for some time, until troops came to his relief and saved the "outfit."
Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 Edmund B. Tuttle
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At supper Ruth Mary waited on the strangers in silence, while Angy kept the cats and dogs "corraled," as her father called it, in the shed, that their impetuous appetites might not disturb the feast.
In Exile and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892
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Meantime the trappers left to guard the fort remained stationed within the wood all night, firmly believing they had their enemy "corraled," as the horsemen of the plains would say.
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A posse of the sheriff had just passed along the ridge; they had "corraled" part of the gang, and rescued some of the stock.
Openings in the Old Trail Bret Harte 1869
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When a halt is made the wagons are "corraled," as it is called, by bringing the two front ones near and parallel to each other.
The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions Randolph Barnes Marcy 1849
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I'm ashamed of the way deer are corraled, grown like plants and then shot from the owners back door.
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The Badgers didn't turn over the ball (8.8 miscues per game), didn't allow many baskets easy or otherwise (56.9 points per game) and didn't allow many teams to crash the offensive glass (they corraled 73 percent of the available rebounds on the defensive boards).
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The Badgers didn't turn over the ball (8.8 miscues per game), didn't allow many baskets easy or otherwise (56.9 points per game) and didn't allow many teams to crash the offensive glass (they corraled 73 percent of the available rebounds on the defensive boards).
Big Ten Conference 2010
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I'm ashamed of the way deer are corraled, grown like plants and then shot from the owners back door.
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