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glebe-lands

glebe-lands is the plural of glebe-land.

Meaning of glebe-land

Noun

glebe-land (plural glebe-lands)

  1. (historical) 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
    Synonyms:
    glebe

Questions about glebe-lands

What is glebe-lands the plural of?
Glebe-lands is the plural of glebe-land.

Words near glebe-lands in the dictionary

  1. glebe-farm
  2. glebe-farms
  3. glebe-house
  4. glebe-houses
  5. glebe-land
  6. glebe-lands
  7. glebeland
  8. glebelands
  9. glebeless
  10. glebes
  11. glebifer

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