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Coop vs Corral - What's the difference?

coop | corral |

As nouns the difference between coop and corral

is that coop is a pen or enclosure for birds or coop can be while corral is an enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.

As verbs the difference between coop and corral

is that coop is to keep in a coop while corral is to capture or round up.

coop

English

(wikipedia coop)

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A pen or enclosure for birds.
  • (slang) jail
  • A barrel or cask for liquor.
  • (Johnson)
  • (Scotland) A cart from boards; a tumbrel.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To keep in a coop.
  • To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.
  • * Dryden
  • The Trojans cooped within their walls so long.
  • * John Locke
  • The contempt of all other knowledge coops the understanding up within narrow bounds.
  • (obsolete) To work upon in the manner of a cooper.
  • * Holland
  • Shaken tubs be new cooped .
    Derived terms
    * coop up

    Etymology 2

    From , by shortening.

    corral

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
  • We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama.
  • An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.
  • Please return the shopping carts to the corral .
  • A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.
  • The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Commanche attacks.

    Synonyms

    * (livestock enclosure ): pen, stockade

    See also

    * crawl (Jamaican English ) * kraal (South African English )

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To capture or round up.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}
  • To place inside of a corral.
  • To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.
  • Anagrams

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