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glebe
UK /ɡliːb/ US /ɡlib/
noun 4name 2
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1ADJ.
stubborn
Definitions
noun
1
Turf; soil; ground; sod.
1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke
2
In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
3
A field or meadow.
Admiring glebes their amber ears unfold, / And Labour sleep amid the waving gold.
4
A piece of earth containing ore.
name
1
A suburb of Sydney in the Sydney council area, New South Wales, Australia.
2
A suburb of the City of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
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1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke
Wiktionary02
Admiring glebes their amber ears unfold, / And Labour sleep amid the waving gold.
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