CORRAL (Span. from corro, a circle)  , a word used chiefly in Spanish America and the United States for an enclosure for cattle and horses, and also for a defensive circle formed of wagons against attacks from Indians . It is also used as a verb, meaning to drive into a corral, and so figuratively to enclose, hem in . The word is probably connected with the South African Dutch word kraal (q.v.) . In Ceylon it is especially used for an enclosure meant for the capture of wild elephants . In this last sense of the word the corresponding term in India is keddah (q.v.) .