Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Glebe

Glebe , noun

[French glèbe, Latin gleba, glaeba, clod, land, soil.]

1.
A lump; a clod.
2.
Turf; soil; ground; sod.
Fertile of corn the glebe, of oil, and wine. — Milton
3.
(Ecclesiastical Law) The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.