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glebe farm

/ˈɡliːb ˌfɑːm/US/ˈɡlib ˌfɑɹm/

glebe farm noun: 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.

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....
    • The immediate renters of the glebe farms, instead of being hostile to the incumbents of livings, would hold the same relation to them which other tenants do to landlords.1812, Joshua Kirby Trimmer, Further Observations on the Present State of Agriculture, and Condition of the Lower Classes of the People, in the Southern Parts of Ireland: […], London: F[rancis]...

Examples of glebe farm in a sentence

  • I must not reckon on more than two thousand three hundred at present, and of that nine hundred and fifty is the great tithe, and the rent of the Glebe farm is three hundred and seventy.1873, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, “The Old Squire and the New”, in The Pillars of the House; or, Under Wode, under Rode. […], volume IV...
  • The same usually applied to the thousands of modest glebe farms belonging to rectors.2016, Bruce M[ortimer] S[tanley] Campbell, “Efflorescence: The Enabling Environment and the Rise of Latin Christendom”, in The Great...

Forms of glebe farm

pluralglebe farms
alternative formglebe-farm

Origin of glebe farm

From glebe (“plot of parish land assigned to a clergy member as part of a benefice”) + farm.

Questions about glebe farm

What does glebe farm mean?
Glebe farm means 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.
How do you use glebe farm in a sentence?
I must not reckon on more than two thousand three hundred at present, and of that nine hundred and fifty is the great tithe, and the rent of the Glebe farm is three hundred and seventy.
What part of speech is glebe farm?
Glebe farm is a noun.
How do you pronounce glebe farm?
Glebe farm is pronounced /ˈɡliːb ˌfɑːm/ (UK).
What is the plural of glebe farm?
The plural of glebe farm is glebe farms.

Words near glebe farm in the dictionary

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

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