kraal

NOUN
  1. a village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa; usually surrounded by a stockade
  2. a pen for livestock in southern Africa

How To Use kraal In A Sentence

  • I cannot put the cattle back into the kraal so early in the day!
  • The king has called the Swazi nation to a national meeting at the royal kraal at Ludzidzini next Wednesday, when he will explain the process in which each and every Swazi citizen will be given the chance to submit recommendations on the new constitution to be drawn up over the coming months. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The next afternoon the spoor led to a kraal of five huts. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
  • Many daughters have been borne to me since, and my kraal is full of their 'lobola' cattle, but the only girl of the lot that I was ever really fond of was Nomalie -- perhaps because she was my first child. Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories
  • Pulling pre-cut thorn bushes and branches across the cave entrance, he fashioned a kraal to keep his sheep safely hidden and boxed in the cave.
  • Phillip then moved the two children to his own Mother's kraal and he paid a substantial sum to the family of his wife for this right - otherwise they might have taken the children themselves.
  • We were twelve miles before the main body, and we came to a house under a high bushed hill, with a nullah, which they call a donga, behind it, and an old sangar of piled stones, which they call a kraal, before it. Traffics and Discoveries
  • They passed a sign that spelled out royal kraal ostrich, j. t. merryweather, proprietor. ABSOLUTE ZERO
  • 24 cattle from this farm have been kraaled on Wallasey (next door) until the owner of the cattle pays compensation.
  • So at dusk I was led to a kraal where an extended Masai family greeted me with great hospitality and a selection of decorative beaded goods.
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