Definition of "glebe" []

• A plot of land belonging or yielding profit to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office. (noun)
• Archaic The soil or earth; land. (noun)

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• "Their incomes are supplemented by a small glebe, which is attached to each"
• "In a real sense, what the village shared with the rectory and the glebe was a boundary."
• "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."