glebe
glebe · glebes
дёрн
Turf; soil; ground; sodTurf; soil; ground; sod.
UK/ɡliːb/US/ɡlib/
Meaning
4 sensesTurf; soil; ground; sod.
1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke
дёрнdjorn
(historical)In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office
(poetic)A field or meadow.
A piece of earth containing ore.
Translations
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By meaning 1
turf:
Origin
From Old French glebe, from Latin glaeba (“lump of earth, clod”). Doublet of gleba.From Old French glebe, from Latin glaeba (“lump of earth, clod”). Doublet of gleba.
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