corralling
Rounding up animals
Corralling is the act of gathering and confining livestock into a corral—a fenced enclosure.
The word extends to any effort to round up or contain: Police spent hours corralling the escaped animals.
Figuratively, it means bringing scattered things or people together: She's been corralling votes for the bill, corralling the kids for dinner.
Managing animal groups
- roundupOrganized gathering of scattered things
- wranglingLengthy, contentious disputing
- penningWriting or confining animals
- drivingControlling a vehicle
cattle · fencing · ranch · cowboys · lasso · chute · stockyard · branding
Limiting freedom of movement
- restrainingHolding something back
- enclosingContaining within boundaries
- trappingCatching with concealed devices
- corneringForcing into position
hemming in · boxing in · penning in · restricting · constraining · capturing · encircling · surrounding
Able to persuade
- pressuringExerting influence to compel
- coaxingPersuading through gentle persistence
- steeringControlling direction of movement
- guidingLeading toward destination
nudging · manipulating · cajoling · influencing · directing · maneuvering · arm-twisting · strong-arming
Collection of people meeting
- rounding upGathering dispersed items
- assemblingFitting parts together
- collectingGathering items over time
- consolidatingCombining dispersed elements
grouping · marshaling · mobilizing · coordinating · wrangling · managing · centralizing · bringing together
herding
Managing animal groups
- roundupOrganized gathering of scattered things
- wranglingLengthy, contentious disputing
- penningWriting or confining animals
driving · cattle · fencing · ranch · cowboys · lasso · chute · stockyard · branding · mustang
confining
Limiting freedom of movement
- restrainingHolding something back
- enclosingContaining within boundaries
- trappingCatching with concealed devices
cornering · hemming in · boxing in · penning in · restricting · constraining · capturing · encircling · surrounding · funneling
convincing
Able to persuade
- pressuringExerting influence to compel
- coaxingPersuading through gentle persistence
- steeringControlling direction of movement
guiding · nudging · manipulating · cajoling · influencing · directing · maneuvering · arm-twisting · strong-arming · rallying
gathering
Collection of people meeting
- rounding upGathering dispersed items
- assemblingFitting parts together
- collectingGathering items over time
consolidating · grouping · marshaling · mobilizing · coordinating · wrangling · managing · centralizing · bringing together · systematizing
- huntingdeer hunting, hunting rifle, hunters, tracking, hunting license
- farmworkharvesting, farmworkers, planting, farm labor, crop farming
- Herdingherding, flock, flocks, herds, shepherd
- displacementdislocation, dislodging, relocation, displacing, uprooting
- capture methodsnetting, trapping, snaring, lasso, ambush
- directing flowchanneling, funneling, directing, routing, piping
corrallingreleasing
Allowing to escape
freeing · liberating · letting go · setting free · unleashing
corrallingreleasing
Allowing to escape
freeing · dispersing · disorganizing · abandoning · scattering