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Plowed vs Corral - What's the difference?

plowed | corral |

As verbs the difference between plowed and corral

is that plowed is past tense of plow while corral is to capture or round up.

As an adjective plowed

is turned over with the blade of a plow to create furrows (usually for planting crops).

As a noun corral is

an enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.

plowed

English

Alternative forms

* ploughed

Verb

(head)
  • (plow)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Turned over with the blade of a plow to create furrows (usually for planting crops).
  • (figuratively, rare) Well-trodden or well-researched, previously explored.
  • (US, informal) Drunk.
  • * 2005 , Anita Shreve, A Wedding in December , Little, Brown and Company (2005), ISBN 9780316024259, unnumbered page:
    • We all assumed he'd walked back to campus along the beach, singing off-key as he had a habit of doing when he was plowed .
  • * 2005 , Gary Stromberg & Jane Merrill, The Harder They Fall: Celebrities Tell Their Real Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery , Hazelden (2007), ISBN 9781592851560, page 72:
    • Then I got a fifth of Bushmills and went back to the room and got plowed . That was my week of being "on the wagon."
  • * 2013 , Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, & Martha Quinn (with Gavin Edwards), VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave , Atria Books (2013), ISBN 9781451678123, page 202:
    • I sat on a stool while everybody in the crew rotated around me, offering me shots of tequila. The only thing I had eaten all day was a doughnut, and I got totally plowed .
  • *

    • Synonyms

    * (drunk) see also .

    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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