Briar vs Zeriba - What's the difference?
briar | zeriba |
Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus'', and ''Smilax genera.
, a thorny Mediterranean shrub.
A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.
(figurative) Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
* (rfdate) (Cowper)
A fence, particularly those once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes.
* 1849 , O'Reilly translating Werne, Exped. Sources White Nile , II 112:
* 1895 , A. H. Keane translating W. Junker, Trav. in Afr. , I v 245:
(label) An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed.
* 1884 Mar. 11, Times , 5:
(label) A camp of troops employing such an enclosure.
* 1887''' Apr. 9, ''Times , 5:
(label) Any wild and barbed barrier, evocative of a briar or thorn patch.
* 1910 , :
* 1961 , P. G. Wodehouse, Ice in Bedroom , vii. 52:
To erect or take refuge within a zereba.
* 1885 July, 19th Cent. , 89:
* 1911 , "Somaliland" in the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th ed., Vol. 25:
As nouns the difference between briar and zeriba
is that briar is any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the rosa, rubus'', and ''smilax genera or briar can be the white heath, while zeriba is a fence, particularly those once commonly improvised in northeastern africa from thornbushes.As a verb zeriba is
to erect or take refuge within a zereba.briar
English
(wikipedia briar) (Erica arborea)Alternative forms
* brierEtymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The thorns and briers of reproof.
Derived terms
* briar-patchEtymology 2
From (etyl) , assimilated with Etymology 1, above.Derived terms
* briar-pipezeriba
English
Alternative forms
* zareba (particularly in figurative uses) * seriba, sariba * zerybeh * zereba, zareeba, zerribaNoun
(en noun)- A shining seriba of reeds, the stalks of which ... perhaps only afford resistance to tame animals.
- The expression ‘'zeriba country ’ applied by some geographers to the northern slope of the Nile–Congo divide.
- The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) advanced this morning to Baker Pasha's zariba .
- ...Forming a zariba , or square, to resist cavalry.
- Once you had passed the initial zareba of fruit stands, souvenir stands, ice-cream stands, and the lair of the enthusiast whose aim in life it was to sell you picture post-cards, and had won through to the long walk where the seats were, you were practically alone with Nature.
- Owing to his obiter dicta having to be filtered through a zareba of white hair, it was not always easy to catch exactly what Mr. Cornelius said.
Verb
(en verb)- The Brigadier ordered the force to zereba on the best position that was near.
- On the 2nd of June a small force, zeribaed under Captain Malcolm McNeill, was attacked by the mullah's followers but repulsed after desperate fighting.
