Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A plot of land belonging or yielding profit to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office.
- noun Archaic The soil or earth; land.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun I. A lump; a mass or concretion.
- noun In mineralogy, a piece of earth in which is contained some mineral ore.
- noun Turf; soil; ground; farming-land.
- noun Now, specifically, the cultivable land belonging to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice. Also
glebe-land .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A lump; a clod.
- noun Turf; soil; ground; sod.
- noun (Eccl. Law) The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
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- noun
Turf ;soil ;ground ;sod . - noun historical In
medieval Europe, an area ofland , belonging to aparish , whoserevenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Their incomes are supplemented by a small glebe, which is attached to each
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849
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In a real sense, what the village shared with the rectory and the glebe was a boundary.
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He was supported partly by the produce of the "glebe," or land belonging to the parish church, partly by tithe, a tax estimated at one-tenth of the income of each man's land, partly by the offerings of the people.
An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Edward Potts Cheyney 1904
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This roused truly frightening images in my mind until I looked up glebe.
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This roused truly frightening images in my mind until I looked up glebe.
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The Commonwealth stripped the church of the glebe lands and permitted the local parishes to align as they saw fit.
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Needs must we now without delay pass this word along the line "Arm, arm! from slumber cease!" for many a man of them, e'en as he leaps aboard his ship, shall be smitten through the back and sprinkle the ladders with blood, and others shall be fast bound with cords and learn to till our Phrygian glebe.
Rhesus 2008
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And at break of day I will drive my steers to my glebe and sow my crop.
Electra 2008
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The door opened upon a wide lawn, bounded by the glebe and orchard.
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Add to all these changes, that the garden was weeded, and the glebe was regularly laboured.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
fbharjo commented on the word glebe
glebe - etymologically similar to galilee
April 8, 2007
kewpid commented on the word glebe
I had always assumed this was just somebody's name. The actual etymology is much more interesting.
September 22, 2007
frindley commented on the word glebe
Sydney has an inner-city suburb called Glebe. In Hobart there's an area of the city (not sure if it's strictly a suburb) that's still known as The Glebe. Presumably both were actual parish glebes at some point.
April 16, 2008
plethora commented on the word glebe
This always brings to mind Looking for Alibrandi. That's where she lived isn't it? Anyone care to correct me?
April 16, 2008
bilby commented on the word glebe
I just picture inner-city Sydney, not Glebe in particular ... might have been Balmain after all! I've met Melina Marchetta and talked to her about this book and I didn't have Glebe in my head after that conversation either.
April 16, 2008
plethora commented on the word glebe
Hmm, I wonder where I got that from, then. I've spent less than 12 hours in Sydney, when I was ten; I have no knowledge of its geography.
April 16, 2008
kewpid commented on the word glebe
It most certainly was set in Glebe. They also filmed it there.
April 16, 2008
plethora commented on the word glebe
So I'm not completely delusional after all. How reassuring.
April 16, 2008
bilby commented on the word glebe
Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield;
Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke;
How jocund did they drive their team afield!
How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
- T. Gray, 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'.
August 11, 2008
jaime_d commented on the word glebe
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
March 6, 2011
blafferty commented on the word glebe
a. A tract of land containing mineral deposits or ore. b. Obsolete term for a clod of earth, an ore, or an earthy mineral. Arkell
(Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms)
June 10, 2011