glebe
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Englisch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French glebe, from Latin glaeba (“lump of earth, clod”). Doublet of gleba.
Pronunciation
[edit]Nomen
[edit]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.
- (poetic) A field oder meadow.
- 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 151:
- Admiring glebes their amber ears unfold, / And Labour sleep amid the waving gold.
- (mining) A piece of earth containing ore.
Usage notes
[edit]- A number of places are named Glebe.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]turf
area of land belonging to a parish
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Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Nomen
[edit]glebe f
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