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glebe

/gleeb/US // glib //UK // (ɡliːb) //

格莱布,格雷布,格尔布

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called glebe land .Chiefly British. the cultivable land owned by a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
    • : Archaic. soil; field.

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Examples

  • And, of all the yokes, is not that of the glebe the heaviest, which forbids them to cross the boundaries of their own seigniory.

  • When the Church will say to those myriads of people, chained down to the glebe: 'Go!

  • Another note was sent to the Glebe, requesting the Rector to come to breakfast and to look at the hounds being thrown off.

  • On the following day, very soon after three, she pushed the bell outside Garstin's studio door in Glebe Place.

  • Nevertheless he was decidedly curious about the good-looking stranger who had been seen in Glebe Place.