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单词 kraal
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kraaln.

Brit. /krɑːl/, /krɔːl/, U.S. /krɑl/, /krɔl/
Forms: Also 1700s crawl, 1700s–1800s craal, 1800s crall, kraul. See also crawl n.2
Etymology: < Colonial Dutch kraal, < Portuguese curral , corral : see corral n.
1.
a. A village of Southern or Central African native peoples, consisting of a collection of huts surrounded by a fence or stockade, and often having a central space for cattle, etc. Also transferred the community of such a village.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [noun] > village in countries other than England
casal1511
clachana1530
rancheria1594
aldeia1609
stanitza1662
kraal1731
pettah1761
township1789
pueblo1808
rancho1819
kainga1820
aoul1828
bustee1834
obe1835
tref1841
kampong1844
mir1856
manyatta1905
lapa1909
shtetl1963
1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope I. 75 The Kraals, as they call them, or villages, of the Hassaquas are larger.
1771 J. Banks Jrnl. Jan. in Endeavour Jrnl. (1962) II. 259 They [sc. the Cape Hottentots] train up Bulls which they constantly place round their Crawls or towns; in the night.
1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope I. 179 A craal or community of Hottentots, to the amount of about thirty persons.
1836 Penny Cycl. V. 229 Kraals of Bosjesmans north of the Orange river who seemed to live in peace under a chief.
1849 E. E. Napier Excursions Southern Afr. I. 316 The huts which compose their kraals are of a circular form.
1891 R. W. Murray S. Afr. 194 A kraal is..a collection of huts surrounded by mud walls or palisading.
b. Used loosely for a poor hut or hovel.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun]
hulka1000
boothc1200
hull?c1225
lodge1290
hottea1325
holetc1380
tavern1382
scalea1400
schura1400
tugury1412
donjon?a1439
cabinc1440
coshc1490
cabinet1579
bully1598
crib1600
shed1600
hut1637
hovela1640
boorachc1660
barrack1686
bothy1750
corf1770
rancho1819
shanty1820
kraal1832
shelty1834
shackle1835
mia-mia1837
wickiup1838
caboose1839
chantier1849
hangar1852
caban1866
shebang1867
humpy1873
shack1878
hale1885
bach1927
jhuggi1927
favela1961
hokkie1973
1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 70 That solitary attraction which the poorest kraals of Ireland possess—hospitality.
2.
a. An enclosure for cattle or sheep (esp. in South or Central Africa); a stockade, pen, fold. (Cf. crawl n.2 1) In quot. 1861 applied to an enclosure formed by wagons.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal enclosure or house general > [noun] > enclosure > fold or pen
folda700
lockeOE
pen1227
foldingc1440
pend1542
cub1548
hull1570
corral1582
boolya1599
ree1674
crew1681
reeve1720
stell1766
pound1779
kraal1796
fank1812
poundage1866
forcing-yard1890
1796 tr. Thunberg's Cape G.H. in Pinkerton's Voy. (1814) XVI. 23 A place or fold, where sheep as well as horned cattle were inclosed in the open air, was called a Kraal.
1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches ii. iv. 180 He led us out towards the kraals or cattle-folds.
1849 E. E. Napier Excursions Southern Afr. I. 313 At the door of the Calf kraal.
1861 G. F. Berkeley Eng. Sportsman xi. 179 My three waggons could not make a crall or fence around my mules and horses.
1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent II. vii. 202 The traveler's first duty in lands infested with lions is to build a safe corral, kraal, or boma, for himself and oxen.
b. In Sri Lanka, an enclosure into which wild elephants are driven; also, the process of capturing elephants in this way. Also attributive. So kraal-town n. a town formed to accommodate the company assembled to view a kraaling of elephants.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > enclosure > for catching elephants
corral1785
keddah1799
kraal1891
1891 Outing Dec. 171/1 An elephant kraal is no simple matter, the drive taking possibly a couple of months to accomplish.
1891 Outing Dec. 171/1 Gradually, slowly but surely, the herds..are driven toward the kraal.
1891 Outing Dec. 174/1 In less than a week's time a town springs into existence. ‘Kraaltown!’ with its clubs, hotels, saloons, cafés, and ‘chummeries’, to say nothing of suburban villas, etc.
1933 D. E. Blunt Elephant ii. 103 Great difficulty was experienced in finding the best way of capturing the young African elephants, the keddah or kraal method used in Ceylon proving impossible in the Congo.
1956 R. Pieris Sinhalese Social Organization v. ii. 185 The pannikalē assisted in driving the elephants into the kraal or enclosure.
c. An enclosure in water for holding live sponges or turtles; = crawl n.2 2.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or breeding other animals > [noun] > enclosure for sponges or turtles
turtle-crawl1833
turtle-kraal1885
terrapin farm1901
kraal1939
1939 Nature 13 May (Suppl.) 807/2 Inshore waters in close proximity to sponge kraals.
1961 Encounter Apr. 18/2 The turtles swim in dense kraals.
3. attributive and in other combinations.
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1817 S. T. Coleridge in Ess. Own Times (1850) III. 957 The Kraul~men from whose errors they absterged themselves.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table x. 280 The selectmen of an African kraal-village.
1900 Daily Tel. 5 June 7/5 The English Yeomanry horses had been kraaled, and, taking fright at the firing, burst through the kraal walls and stampeded.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

kraalv.

Brit. /krɑːl/, /krɔːl/, U.S. /krɑl/, /krɔl/
Etymology: < kraal n.
transitive. To enclose in a kraal or stockade.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > drive or put into enclosure
parc1300
foldc1440
house1578
pinfold1605
pen1607
enfold?1611
impen?1623
to get in1698
weara1724
yard1758
to run in1837
corral1847
paddock1847
kraal1865
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Oct. 6 25,000 cattle and 8,000 horses were thus kraaled on the top of a mountain.
1877 T. Baines Goldfields 8 The necessity of kraaling the cattle at night within the village.
1891 Outing Dec. 174/2 Hurrying them to the kraal we lowered the huge bars and kraaled our first elephant.
1899 H. R. Haggard Swallow vi Now I go out to see to the kraaling of the cattle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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