Meaning of glebe | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Turf; soil; ground; sod.
2. A suburb of Sydney in the Sydney council area, New South Wales, Australia.
3. In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
   historical
4. A suburb of the City of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
5. A field or meadow.
   poetic
6. A piece of earth containing ore.

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Examples

“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”

“Admiring glebes their amber ears unfold, / And Labour sleep amid the waving gold.”

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