glebe
Also called glebe land .Chiefly British. the cultivable land owned by a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
Archaic. soil; field.
Origin of glebe
1Other words from glebe
- glebeless, adjective
Words Nearby glebe
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How to use glebe in a sentence
And, of all the yokes, is not that of the glebe the heaviest, which forbids them to cross the boundaries of their own seigniory.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne SueWhen the Church will say to those myriads of people, chained down to the glebe: 'Go!
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne SueAnother note was sent to the glebe, requesting the Rector to come to breakfast and to look at the hounds being thrown off.
The Kellys and the O'Kellys | Anthony TrollopeOn the following day, very soon after three, she pushed the bell outside Garstin's studio door in glebe Place.
December Love | Robert HichensNevertheless he was decidedly curious about the good-looking stranger who had been seen in glebe Place.
December Love | Robert Hichens
British Dictionary definitions for glebe
/ (ɡliːb) /
British land granted to a clergyman as part of his benefice
poetic land, esp when regarded as the source of growing things
Origin of glebe
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