glebe
- n plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office
- A century ago, a pastor's income consisted of tithes (10% of each farmer's yield), plus glebe lands (owned by the parish), plus the pastor's own private income as the son of a .
- George at Oxford; George not knowing what he wants to do except that it is not politics, empire-building, society life or the glebe; George spinning like an amiable, girlish .
- Fertil of corn the glebe, oyl and wine, With herds the pastures throng'd, with flocks the hills, Huge Cities and high tow'r'd, that well might seem.