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glebe

  [gleeb]
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–noun
1. Also called glebe land. Chiefly British. the cultivable land owned by a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
2. Archaic. soil; field.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME < L glēba, glaeba clod of earth

Related forms:
glebeless, adjective
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glebe   (glēb)   
n.  

  1. A plot of land belonging or yielding profit to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office.

  2. Archaic The soil or earth; land.


[Latin glēba, clod.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

glebe 
1302, from O.Fr. glebe, from L. gleba "clod, lump," from PIE *glebh- "to roll into a ball" (cf. L. globus "sphere," O.E. clyppan "to embrace"). Earliest Eng. sense is "land forming a clergyman's benefice," on notion of soil of the earth as source of vegetable products.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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