Glebe
WordNet

noun


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

Noun



  1. 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
  2. In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
 
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