kraal

noun

1. an enclosure for cattle and other domestic animals in southern Africa.
2. a village of the native peoples of South Africa, usually surrounded by a stockade or the like and often having a central space for livestock.
3. such a village as a social unit.
4. an enclosure where wild animals are exhibited, as in a zoo.

verb (used with object)

5. to shut up in a krall, as cattle.

noun

1. a hut village in southern Africa, esp one surrounded by a stockade
2. an enclosure for livestock

adjective

3. denoting or relating to the tribal aspects of the Black African way of life

verb

4. (tr) to enclose (livestock) in a kraal