glebe

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The enslaved were included with the glebe, the land and home used by the minister.

From Washington Times

His imagination had no need of anything more stirring than that presented to him by the recollection of human vicissitudes amidst glebe and glade.

From Project Gutenberg

He extinguishes the Ribbon lodge, fastens his tenantry by equitable leases to the glebe, and gradually finds in the management of his estate a career of easy, pleasant, and even prosperous power.

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In the fine pasturage of the glebe meadows, the red-brown cows were gathered under a tree, out of the hot sparkle of the sun.

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One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.

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