Kraal vs Craal - What's the difference?
kraal | craal |
In Central and Southern Africa, a small rural community.
* 1861 , (Charles John Andersson), Lake Ngami , , page 89
* 1979 , , A Dry White Season , Vintage 1998, p. 88:
In Central and Southern Africa, a rural village of huts surrounded by a stockade.
* 1994 , (Nelson Mandela), Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 6:
An enclosure for livestock.
* 2000 , Jonathan Amos, "'Funny creature' toast of Botswana", BBC News Online, 3 July 2000:
To enclose livestock within a kraal or stockade.
* 1861 , (Charles John Andersson), Lake Ngami , , page 343
As nouns the difference between kraal and craal
is that kraal is in central and southern africa, a small rural community while craal is .As a verb kraal
is to enclose livestock within a kraal or stockade.kraal
English
(wikipedia kraal)Noun
(en noun)- Onanis is the permanent residence of a kraal of very poor Hill-Damaras, who subsist chiefly upon the few wild roots which their sterile neighborhood produces.
- ‘The paraffin box covered with newsprint, and the primus, and the bucket standing on the floor, and a photo of our kraal ’s chief on the wall.’
- A kraal was a homestead and usually included a simple fenced-in enclosure for animals, fields for growing crops, and one or more thatched huts.
- The animal, which is now six years old, was born naturally from the mating of a female goat with a male sheep sharing the same kraal .
Synonyms
* (livestock enclosure) corral, penSee also
* boma (East African) * crawl (Jamaican English )Verb
(en verb)- he knew that one of these beasts was in the habit of harassing the goat-kids, which, for better security, he had kraaled against the wall of the house.