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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 922 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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KRAAL , also spelt craal, kraut, &c. (See also:

South See also:

AFRICAN

African Dutch, derived possibly from a native African word, but probably from the See also:

SPANISH

Spanish See also:

CORRAL (Span. from corro, a circle)

corral, Portuguese curral, an enclosure for horses, See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle and the like), in South and Central See also:

Africa, a native See also:

VILLAGE

village surrounded by a palisade, mud See also:

wall or other See also:

FENCING

fencing roughly circular in See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form; by transference, the community living within the enclosure. Folds for animals and enclosures made specially for defensive purposes are also called kraals.

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