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glebe
noun
[ ɡliːb ]
• a piece of land serving as part of a clergyman's benefice and providing income.
• "the rich vicarage of Churcham had no glebe at all"
• land; fields.
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin gleba, glaeba ‘clod, land, soil’.