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amba

[am-buh]
noun
  1. anba.
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Historical Examples

  • Theodore on this retired to some huts on the amba, about 50 yards from the second gate.

    Our Soldiers

    W.H.G. Kingston

  • The multiplication of the amba is brought about by a process of fission or division.

    The Sea Shore

    William S. Furneaux

  • They have not the same power of movement, though they do move somewhat as the amba does.

    Homo-culture

    Martin Luther Holbrook

  • Seventy feet higher up there was a second hedge, and another gate opening on the flat summit of the amba.

    Our Soldiers

    W.H.G. Kingston

  • Amba′to, a town of Ecuador, on the side of Chimborazo, 70 miles south of Quito.