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Thesaurus: glebe

A lump; a clod.

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  1. n. A lump; a clod.
  2. n. Turf; soil; ground; sod.
  3. n. The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
  4. n. plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office
  5. 1. A lump; a clod. 2. Turf; soil; ground; sod. Fertile of corn the glebe, of oil, and wine. Milton. 3. (Eccl. Law) The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
  6. The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church orecclesiastical benefice.
  7. n. plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office