glebe
noun/ɡliːb/
/ɡliːb/
- [countable] (in the past) a piece of land that provided an income for a Christian priest
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- [uncountable] (old use) land; fields
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin gleba, glaeba ‘clod, land, soil’.
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