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English Dictionary: Glebe by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glebe
n
  1. plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glebe \Glebe\, n. [F. gl[8a]be, L. gleba, glaeba, clod, land,
      soil.]
      1. A lump; a clod.
  
      2. Turf; soil; ground; sod.
  
                     Fertile of corn the glebe, of oil, and wine.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      3. (Eccl. Law) The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a
            parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
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