The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zareba \Za*re"ba\, n. (Mil.) An improvised stockade; especially, one made of thorn bushes, etc. [Written also zareeba, and zeriba.] [Egypt]
``Ah,'' he moralizes, ``what wonderful instinct on the
part of this little creature to surround itself with a
zareba like the troops after Osman Digma.''
--R.
Jefferies.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A fence, particularly those once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes. 2 (label en by extension) An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed. 3 (label en by extension) A camp of troops employing such an enclosure. 4 (label en by extension) Any wild and barbed barrier, evocative of a briar or thorn patch. vb. To erect or take refuge within a zereb
Usage examples of "zeriba".
A quarter of an hour later, the Sikhs were passing the Berkshire zeriba, and the Berkshires, filing out, joined them to cut brushwood.
Bagshot, as, disorganised by the vedettes riding through their flank into the zeriba, the Bengalese wavered.
Connor, as the enemy poured down on their zeriba on the west and the Bengalese retreated on them from the east, the Billy Bagshot detachment of Berkshires rallying them and firing steadily, the enemy swarming after and stampeding the mules and camels.