Definition of "glebe" in English

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. (historical) In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.

3. (poetic) A field or meadow.

4. (mining) A piece of earth containing ore.