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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

(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.

zareba ‎(plural zarebas)

zareba ‎(third-person singular simple present zarebas, present participle zarebaing, simple past and past participle zarebaed)