Meaning of kraal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. In Central and Southern Africa, a small rural community.
2. In Central and Southern Africa, a rural village of huts surrounded by a stockade.
3. An enclosure for livestock.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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