zeriba /zəˈɹiːbə/noun 4verb 1forms 3 noun4 •An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed.The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) advanced this morning to Baker Pasha’s zariba. — 1884 •Any wild and barbed barrier, evocative of a briar or thorn patch.[…] 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. — 1940 •(historical) A fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes.On the left shore two neat farmyards shew themselves in a shining seriba of reeds, the stalks of which are connected very regularly with each other, but perhaps only afford resistance to tame animals. — 1849 •A camp of troops employing such an enclosure.[…] forming a zariba, or square, to resist cavalry. — 1887 verb1 •To erect or take refuge within a zeriba.[…] the Brigadier ordered the force to zereba on the best position that was near. — 1885 formszeribaed · zeribaing · zeribas
