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Webster 1913 Edition


Zareba

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Za-re′ba

,
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.