Za*re"ba (?), n. 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.
© Webster 1913.