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plural glebes
Turf; soil; ground; sod. quotations examples
Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, / Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke
1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
(historical) In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
(poetic) A field or meadow. quotations examples
Admiring glebes their amber ears unfold, / And Labour sleep amid the waving gold.
1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 151
(mining) A piece of earth containing ore. examples