How to pronounce“zeriba”in English
among this rose the palm trees between whose stems the dry bed of the atbara was exposed and a single pool of water gleamed in the early sunlight. Such was
Mahmud's famous zeriba which for more than a month had been the predominant thought in the minds of the troops. It was scarcely imposing and at first the
soldiers thought it deserted. Only a dozen stray horsemen sat silently on their horses outside the entrenchment, watching their enemies, and inside a few
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Definitions of “zeriba”
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.”
An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed.
“The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) advanced this morning to Baker Pasha’s zariba.”
To erect or take refuge within a zeriba.
“[…] the Brigadier ordered the force to zereba on the best position that was near.”