Meaning of glebe-farm | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“A silver coin of Edward the Confessor was found on the glebe-farm, in digging a well, in 1833.”

“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, […]”

“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.”

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