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corralling

corralling is the present participle and gerund of corral.

Meaning of corral

Verb

corral (third-person singular simple present corrals, present participle (US) corraling or (UK) corralling, simple past and past participle (US) corraled or (UK) corralled)

  1. To capture or round up.
    • Between us, we managed to corral the puppies in the kitchen.
  2. To place inside of a corral.
    • After we corralled the last steer, we headed off to the chuck wagon for dinner.
  3. To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.
    • The cattle drivers corralled their wagons for the night.

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Questions about corralling

What is corralling the present participle and gerund of?
Corralling is the present participle and gerund of corral.

Words near corralling in the dictionary

  1. Corraleses
  2. corraling
  3. corralito
  4. Corralitos
  5. corralled
  6. corralling
  7. corrals
  8. Corran
  9. Corrans
  10. Corrao
  11. Corraos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: corralling (page history and authors); corral (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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