Definitions for kraals

• Definition
• Anagrams (73)

kraals kraal

Spelling: [krahl]

IPA: /krɑl/

Kraals is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in kraals (aaklrs).

Definitions for kraals

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 kraals

1725-35; Afrikaans Portuguese curral pen; see corral

Examples for kraals

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

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

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

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

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.

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.