glebeland
glebeland is the alternative form of glebe-land.
Meaning of glebe-land
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
- Synonyms:
- glebe
Forms of glebeland
| plural | glebelands |
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Questions about glebeland
- What is glebeland the alternative form of?
- Glebeland is the alternative form of glebe-land.
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