Hypertext Webster Gateway: "glebe"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Glebe \Glebe\, n. [F. gl[`e]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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
glebe
n : plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an
ecclesiastical office
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