glebe

From Old French glebe, from Latin glaeba (“lump of earth, clod”).

• enPR: glēb, IPA^(key): /ɡliːb/

glebe (plural glebes)

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. (historical) In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
3. (archaic) A meadow, land or fields
4. (mining) A piece of earth containing ore.

• A number of places are named Glebe.

• glebe-house
• glebe-land

glebe f

1. plural of gleba