za·re·ba also za·ree·ba (z -r  b)n. 1. An enclosure of bushes or stakes protecting a campsite or village in northeast Africa. 2. A campsite or village protected by such an enclosure. [Arabic zar  ba, cattle pen.] |
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We therefore blocked the entrance to our zareba by filling it up with several thorny bushes, and left our camp with the stores entirely surrounded by this protecting hedge. The novelist blocks his reader's path with a zareba of stars. |
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