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. (alternative spelling of zariba English)
Usage examples of "zareeba".
Only a thorn zareeba as yet enclosed that noisome prison and the space about it.
An hour later they were allowed to pass out of the zareeba and make their way to the Nile.
If you come to the aid of his starving family and bid him keep for himself fifteen dollars out of the amount he took from you, you may get permission to sleep in the zareeba outside the prison.
He thought only of Trench and the few awkward words he had spoken in the corner of the zareeba on the first night when they lay side by side under the sky.
While he wondered he heard the shouts of the gaolers, the cries of the prisoners outside the zareeba and in the direction of the river.
At the action of the Atbara he, the brigadier in command, was the first to reach and to tear down with his own hands the zareeba of the enemy--a gallant exploit of the soldier, but a questionable position for the General.