Both Uses of
periphery
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- I helped him construct a sturdy stick barricade around the periphery so the jungle animals and village goats would not come in and wreck our tender vegetables when they came.†
Chpt 1 *
- Just as they used to do when we first arrived here, they materialized one by one out of the moist air and the bamboo thickets until they'd formed a silent, watchful circle around the periphery of our yard.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
the outside boundary or surface of something;
or more rarely: outside the area of main activity
or more rarely: outside the area of main activity