Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plantation; a portion of cultivated land.
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- noun East Africa An area of
cultivated ground; aplot of land, a small subsistencefarm for growing crops and fruit-bearing trees, often including the dwelling of the farmer.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have a wonderful green shamba - garden - now because of the effluents of the bio-gas afterwards.
Kitengela Glass Produces Art Outside Nairobi National Park 2010
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The third character is Mr. Malik's observant, empathetic shamba boy helper, Benjamin.
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The shamba system of tree plantations interplanted with crops comprises over half the planted area but over half of it is not replanted with trees at all.
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Mabruki the “Bull-headed,” owned a shamba (or a house with a garden attached to it), of which he was very proud.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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He swung them over his shoulder in their thong and leather cup harness and, with his best spear that he had kept with him all the time in his hand, they started on the trail for the shamba.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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It was then he knew that he should have been sent back to the shamba once he had put them on the trail.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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Kibo and I found him and I never should have told them and I should have kept him secret and had him always and let them stay drunk at the beer shamba.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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He had betrayed the elephant when he had gone back to tell them at the shamba.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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They looked as though they had a dirty secret, just as they had looked when he had found them that night at the shamba.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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The moon was high now and he wondered why there was no drumming from the shamba.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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