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Corral vs Correal - What's the difference?

corral | correal |

As a noun corral

is an enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.

As a verb corral

is to capture or round up.

As an adjective correal is

(roman law) under joint obligation ((applied to an obligation in which the parties are severally liable)).

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

    * ----

    correal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (Roman law) Under joint obligation ((applied to an obligation in which the parties are severally liable)).

    • Related terms

    * (l) (law)

    References

    * “ Correal]” listed on page 1,013 of volume II (C) of '' [1st ed., 1893]
    ??Correal''' (), ''a.''?''Roman Law.''?[f. L. ''correus'', ''conreus'' (f. ''cor-'', ''con-'' together + ''reus'' one under obligation) + -al.]?Under joint obligation: applied to an obligation in which the parties are severally liable.?[¶?'''1875 Poste ''Gaius     iii. Comm. (ed. 2) 398 A second difference between Correality and Solidarity consists in the fact that in Solidarity the guarantor who pays the whole has regressus against his co-guarantors, that is to say, has a power of recovering from them contribution of their share of the debt: whereas the Correal debtor who pays has no regressus or right to contribution. * “ correal, a.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989