glebe

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glebe / glēb/ • n. hist. a piece of land serving as part of a clergyman's benefice and providing income. ∎ archaic land; fields.

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English

glebe

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glebe was a portion of land allocated to support a priest. Though originally it was intended as the sole support, it soon required substantial augmentation, usually through tithes. At the Norman Conquest, the glebe was twice the holding of a villein: in the 18th cent. many glebes were enlarged, either in compensation for enclosures or in lieu of tithes.

J. A. Cannon

The Oxford Companion to British History JOHN CANNON

glebe

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glebe soil, earth; field; portion of land attached to a benefice. XIV. — L. glēba, glǣba clod, land, soil; cf. Pol. gleba, Russ. glȳba clod, and see GLOBE.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD

Glebe

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Glebe. Land which belongs to the endowment of a parish and which provides an income from farming by the priest himself or a tenant.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions JOHN BOWKER

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