glebe
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
glebe (plural glebes)
- 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
- 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- (historical) In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
- (archaic) A meadow, land or fields
- (mining) A piece of earth containing ore.
- Russian: дёрн
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