glebe

See also: glebę and glèbe

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French glebe, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin glaeba (“lump of earth, clod”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: glēb, IPA^(key): /ɡliːb/

Noun

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.

Usage notes

• A number of places are named Glebe.

Derived terms

• glebe-house
• glebe-farm
• glebe-land

Translations

turf

• Bulgarian: земя (bg) f (zemja), почва (bg) f (počva)
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• Russian: дёрн (ru) (djorn)

area of land belonging to a parish

• Bulgarian: църковна земя f (cǎrkovna zemja)
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• Greek: βακούφι (el) n (vakoúfi), μετόχι (el) n (metóchi)

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Italian

Noun

glebe f

1. plural of gleba