Zariba

Full definition of zariba

Noun

1. (in East Africa) A tall protective hedge, around a village or fortified camp.
• 1944, Miles Burton, The Three Corpse Trick Chapter 5, The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.

Alternative forms

• zareba