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glebe farms

glebe farms is the plural 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 farms

alternative formglebe-farms

Questions about glebe farms

What is glebe farms the plural of?
Glebe farms is the plural of glebe farm.

Words near glebe farms in the dictionary

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

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