Definition of boma in English English dictionary
- A stockade made of bushes and thorns
the area has three main groups. The Wamasi and Waarushaare still settled on the boma system where the clan settle in one cluster called a boma comprised of several houses enclosed in a fence leaving the centre open for keeping livestock.
- An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders
Recent replacement of rolled mesh with bomas made of portable, flexible reinforced mesh panels have nearly eliminated predation.
- A military or police post or magistracy
Gwembe district police officer-in-charge Adams Gondwe has appealed to Government to put up a police post in Muyumbwe boma to replace one that was washed away by floods last year.
- A method of composting
The boma method is used on farms where there are animals which are kept in enclosures where droppings are concentrated.
- A type of fertilizer rich in animal dung
The cattle are usually corralled overnight which enables farmers to collect farmyard or boma manure.
- A hut
The exotic beauty of our Masaailand is a marvel to our creator, she thought as she stepped back into her boma, a typical Masaai hut built with grass, dry sticks and twigs and covered with cow dung for insulation.
- A hide
You try to arrange the scene so the moonlight will be on the bait with a clear background against which the lion will show up. You pile as much fresh brush as you can on your thicket or boma, as the hiding place is called, for the lion can see as well by day as by night.
- {i} city in Zaire on the Congo River
- {i} fenced-in enclosure (in central and east Africa); police post in central and east Africa; large non-poisonous snake native of western Africa; Brazilian boa