ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Zeriba

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /zəˈɹiːbə/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Zeriba is a noun meaning (by extension) An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed.

Meaning

(by extension) An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed.

(by extension) A camp of troops employing such an enclosure.
(by extension) Any wild and barbed barrier, evocative of a briar or thorn patch.
To erect or take refuge within a zeriba.
(historical) A fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes.

[…] forming a zariba, or square, to resist cavalry.

The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) advanced this morning to Baker Pasha’s zariba.

I clutched at a gun - my pockets were full of cartridges - and, parting the thorn bushes at the gate of our zareba, quickly slipped out.

[…] a small withered soldier sat by the prison door with a gun between his knees and the shadows of the palms pointed at him like a zareba of sabres.

Related dictionary entries include barabara, baraza, bethabara, zimbi, barabora, diamba.

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