1. A fenced in area or an enclosed space where horses, cows, sheep, etc. are kept temporarily: "In Southern Africa, the natives have kraals for their domestic animals during the nights and then they are taken out each morning to graze on grass during the day times."
2. Etymology: from Afrikaans, "enclosure for cattle", from Portuguese curral, perhaps of Hottentot origin.

To enclose or to keep livestock penned in the southern parts of Africa: "The natives were kraaling their cattle and sheep so they couldn't wander away."