Definitions for kraal

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Spelling: [krahl]

IPA: /krɑl/

Kraal is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in kraal (aaklr).

Definitions for kraal

noun

1. an enclosure for cattle and other domestic animals in southern Africa.
2. a village of the native peoples of South Africa, usually surrounded by a stockade or the like and often having a central space for livestock.
3. such a village as a social unit.
4. an enclosure where wild animals are exhibited, as in a zoo.

verb (used with object)

1. to shut up in a krall, as cattle.

Origin of kraal

1725-35; Afrikaans Portuguese curral pen; see corral

Examples for kraal

We saw a Kaffir kraal on a hill, and to us "it was nothing more."

He lost it, as the brigadier had foreseen, in the vicinity of Abraham's kraal.

The Kaffirs of the kraal we had impressed to assist at once.

We must take the child to the kraal, and give it up to them.

I heard that Wambe had a stockade round his kraal made of elephant tusks.

The two were strolling up and down outside Nondwana's kraal.

They made a stretcher of boughs and carried me for some miles to their kraal inland.

The lion was traced to a grove of trees, about a mile and a half from the kraal.

Another "Zulu" word which has travelled a long way is kraal.

I announced my intentions to the head man of the kraal, who was delighted.