kraal, verb transitive

/krɑːl/
Forms:
Also krall.
Origin:
From kraal noun.
Sometimes in the phrase to kraal off.
Note:
Often passive
1. To drive (animals) into an enclosure; to keep (animals) in an enclosure.
1822 T. Philipps Philipps, 1820 Settler (1960) 136Our Cattle are kraaled every night before sun down, and we have determined not to defend them if the Caffres make an attack in the night, but allow them to carry them off.
1827 G. Thompson Trav. 401I found the lady of the mansion kraaling her flocks and herds.
1836 R. Godlonton Introductory Remarks to Narr. of Irruption 11For some time were permitted even to graze and kraal their cattle as far westward as the banks of the Fish River.
1850 J.D. Lewins Diary. 24 Oct.Ordered Fengou to kraal the horses at night, as they are every night in the corn.
a1858 J. Goldswain Chron. II. 170Your sheep can be Kraaled within the square.
1863 E.L. Price Jrnls (1956) 120After kraaling the oxen, the men gathered round the fires & cooked their suppers.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. (U.K.) 16 Oct. 625,000 cattle and 8,000 horses were thus kraaled on the top of a mountain.
1877 T. Baines Gold Regions of S.-E. Afr. 8The necessity of kraaling the cattle at night within the village.
1882 J. Nixon Among Boers 87In South Africa the practice of kraaling the sheep at nights appears to be universal.
1896 M.A. Carey-Hobson At Home in Tvl 95It was absolutely necessary that they should be kraaled, for fear of the wolves and jackles.
1904 Argus Christmas Annual (Orange River Colony Sect.) 12The sheep were kraaled.
1924 S.G. Millin God’s Step-Children 14He saw that the huts acted as a barrier for the cattle kraaled within the circle.
1910 H. Rider Haggard Queen Sheba’s Ring 35Their only resource was to kraal their animals within stone walls at night.
1926 J. Kirkman in S.N.G. Cory Diary of Francis Owen 163No cattle had been Kralled for many days.
1937 Handbk for Farmers (Dept of Agric. & Forestry) 517To prevent the disease, do not kraal the animals but leave them in the open veld.
1944 J. Mockford Here Are S. Africans 21Even as he..kraaled the Hottentots’ cattle, Jan van Riebeeck looked over his shoulder and frowned his annoyance at the bay.
1954 K. Cowin Bushveld, Bananas & Bounty 28He kraals his cattle at night partly because they may stray, but chiefly from the habit of protecting them from wild animals.
1961 H.F. Sampson White-Faced Huts 16Manjusa arrived at dusk after the donkeys and cows were kraaled.
1974 E. Prov. Herald 9 Aug. 6Because of past attacks by killer dogs, the Bouwers kraal their sheep every night.
2. Transferred and figurative senses. To separate (people) into groups of similar type; to restrict (people); to enclose (an area).
1898 G. Nicholson 50 Yrs 25Converted kaffirs..kept ‘kraalled’ within institutional limits.
1911 Blackburn & Caddell Secret Service 284Arresting a few ringleaders and kraaling the crowd in the old jail at Doornfontein.
1949 Rand Daily Mail 27 July 6Kraaling off the children.
c1963 B.C. Tait Durban Story 21Captain Smith and his ‘rooibaadjies’ were kraaled in the Fort and there the Boers meant to starve them into surrender.
1970 Argus 26 Sept. 5Children of the two language groups are deliberately kraaled off and are, therefore, unable to learn one another’s language properly and to become true South Africans.
1974 Sunday Times 24 Nov. (Mag. Sect.) 18There would be no such thing as kraaling off the beaches in my brave new world.
1986 Drum Mar. 18More than three decades ago mlungu came up with the Bantu Authorities Act to kraal us into our little bantustans.
To drive (animals) into an enclosure; to keep (animals) in an enclosure.
To separate (people) into groups of similar type; to restrict (people); to enclose (an area).
Derivatives:
Hence kraaled  participial adjective, kraaling  verbal noun.
1899 H. Rider Haggard Swallow p.viNow I go out to see to the kraaling of the cattle.
1910 A.B. Lamont Rural Reader 118Kraaling is not a good method; for it injures the wool.
1915 J.K. O’Connor Afrikander Rebellion 78His child..must help with the milking and kraaling of the cattle.
1919 R.Y. Stormberg With Love from Gwenno 73To-day the two native boys had permission to leave early...On such occasions the young ‘baases’ finish up the kraaling between them.
1942 S. Cloete Hill of Doves 7The kraaled beasts were restless.
1963 R. Lewcock Early 19th C. Archit. 167Few proper precautions had been taken for the safe kraaling of the livestock.
1979 M. Parkes Wheatlands 85Kraaling of stock was all wrong and..was not only bad for the stock but for the veld as well.
1990 B. Nixon in Weekend Post 3 Nov. (Leisure) 3This was the pioneering life — complete with a kraaled flock of black-faced sheep and goats.
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