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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
glebe /gliːb/

▶noun

1 historical a piece of land serving as part of a clergyman's benefice and providing income.

2 archaic land; fields.

– origin ME: from L. gleba, glaeba ‘clod, land, soil’.

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