Glebe definition

Glebe

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WordNet

(1) Plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office

WiktionaryText

Turf; soil; ground; sod.
- 1768, Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard":
  
  Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield,
  
  Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke
In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.