Definitions for glebe

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Spelling: [gleeb]
IPA: /glib/

Glebe is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in glebe (beegl).

Definitions for glebe

noun

  1. Also called glebe land. Chiefly British. the cultivable land owned by a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
  2. Archaic. soil; field.

Origin of glebe

1275-1325; Middle English Latin glēba, glaeba clod of earth

Examples for glebe

The Great North Road should have been bordered all its length with glebe.

If the glebe land is proportionate, it may yield two potatoes.

This field extended to the limits of the glebe, which was enclosed on that side by a privet-hedge.

Tithes in Ribbesford manor, £30; in Bewdley, £48; glebe, £2.

The glebe is worth about 30 per annum; the amount of the stipend is 240.

Add to all these changes, that the garden was weeded, and the glebe was regularly laboured.

There was much to do out of the house also, what with the cows and the garden and the glebe.

Is the culture to be slovenly where the glebe is so fertile?

It nearly corresponds with the English glebe in its proper use.

A terrier of glebe lands, with any exchange noted, should be made.

Word Value for glebe
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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