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glebes

glebes is the plural of glebe.

Meaning of glebe

Noun

glebe (plural glebes)

  1. Turf; soil; ground; sod.
    • Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield,
      Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
  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.
    • Admiring glebes their amber ears unfold, / And Labour sleep amid the waving gold.1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 151
  4. A piece of earth containing ore.

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Questions about glebes

What is glebes the plural of?
Glebes is the plural of glebe.

Words near glebes in the dictionary

  1. glebe-land
  2. glebe-lands
  3. glebeland
  4. glebelands
  5. glebeless
  6. glebes
  7. glebifer
  8. glebifers
  9. glebous
  10. glebulose
  11. gleby

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