Kraal
[krɑ:l]
Definition
(noun.) a pen for livestock in southern Africa.
(noun.) a village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa; usually surrounded by a stockade.
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Definition
(n.) A collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single hut.
(n.) An inclosure into which are driven wild elephants which are to be tamed and educated.
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Examples
- Its morale was not that of a kraal, but that of a slum. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There he did very well, but something went wrong (as it always does to a nomad), so he went to the Transvaal, and ran a panorama called 'Paradise Lost' in the Kaffir kraals. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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