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glebe-farm

glebe-farm is the alternative form of glebe farm.

Meaning of glebe farm

Noun

glebe farm (plural glebe farms)

  1. (UK) A home farm owned by a parish, assigned as part of a benefice to a parish priest, pastor, rector, or vicar to provide them with income.
    • On the glebe farms the country is very populous, and but for the liberality of the few reſident gentry, the poor would have literally ſtarved this diſtreſſing ſeaſon.1801, Charles Coote, “Barony of Balliboy”, in General View of the Agriculture and Manufactures of the King’s County, with Observations on the Means of Their Improvement, Drawn Up in the Year 1801....

Forms of glebe-farm

pluralglebe-farms

Questions about glebe-farm

What is glebe-farm the alternative form of?
Glebe-farm is the alternative form of glebe farm.

Words near glebe-farm in the dictionary

  1. glebae
  2. glebal
  3. glebe
  4. glebe farm
  5. glebe farms
  6. glebe-farm
  7. glebe-farms
  8. glebe-house
  9. glebe-houses
  10. glebe-land
  11. glebe-lands

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