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A fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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- 1895, A. H. Keane, Africa, Volume I, North Africa, (Stanford’s Compendium of Geography and Travel), London: Edward Stanford, Chapter 5, p. 245, footnote 1, In Arabic zeriba means any kind of rough and ready fenced enclosure; hence the expression “zeriba country” applied by some geographers to the northern slope of the Nile-Congo divide, where the Arab traders and slave-hunters had founded numerous palisaded stations long before the establishment of the Egyptian administration in that region.
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An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed.
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A camp of troops employing such an enclosure.
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Any wild and barbed barrier, evocative of a briar or thorn patch.
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Usage: broadly
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To erect or take refuge within a zeriba.
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Borrowed from Arabic زَرِيبَة (zarība, “pen, cattle pen”).
