glebe-farm

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English

Noun

glebe-farm (plural glebe-farms)

  1. Alternative form of glebe farm
    • 1848, Samuel Lewis, “FRODINGHAM, NORTH (St. Elgin)”, in A Topographical Dictionary of England, , 7th edition, volume II, London: S Lewis and Co., , →OCLC, page 268, column 2:
      A silver coin of Edward the Confessor was found on the glebe-farm, in digging a well, in 1833.
    • 1880, H C. Barkley, chapter XVI, in My Boyhood: A Story Book for Boys, New York, N.Y.: E P Dutton & Company, →OCLC, page 205:
      Part of my father's income, as rector of the parish, was derived from a pretty little glebe-farm, on which was a neat old-fashioned farmhouse, surrounded with small but well-arranged buildings. All was let, years before I could remember, to a man named John Ashmeade, one of the most respectable men in the parish, []
    • 1891, Charles Gide, “The Man who Lives on His Income”, in Edward Percy Jacobsen, transl., Principles of Political Economy, Boston, Mass.: D C Heath & Co., →OCLC, page 529:
      We cannot easily admit that land has been distributed amongst a few men, like the benefices or glebe-farms in the king's gift, merely that it may yield them a certain income.