glebe-land
glebe-land noun: area of land belonging to a parish in medieval times.
Noun
glebe-land (plural glebe-lands)
- Area of land belonging to a parish in medieval times.
- In good truth, I hardly know—a Miss Arundel—a wood-nymph, the daughter of either a country squire or a clergyman—equipped, I suppose, by a mortgage on either the squire's corn-fields, or the parson's glebe land—[..]1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 85
- Prior to the Reformation the farm buildings (since rebuilt and considerably dwindled) had appertained, like much of the glebe-land around Valmouth, to the Abbots of St. Veronica, when at the confiscation of the monasteries by the Crown one Thierry Monfaulcon Tooke, tennis-master to the Court of...1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 8
- Synonyms:
- glebe
Synonyms of glebe-land
Forms of glebe-land
| plural | glebe-lands |
|---|---|
| alternative form | glebeland |
| alternative form | glebe land |
Questions about glebe-land
- What does glebe-land mean?
- Glebe-land means area of land belonging to a parish in medieval times.
- What part of speech is glebe-land?
- Glebe-land is a noun.
- What is the plural of glebe-land?
- The plural of glebe-land is glebe-lands.
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