glebe

Definition

Turf; soil; ground; sod.

Etymology

From Old French glebe, from Latin glaeba (“lump of earth, clod”). Doublet of gleba.

Example Sentences

• "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"
• "Admiring glebes their amber ears unfold, / And Labour sleep amid the waving gold."