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glebe farm

noun
/ˈɡliːb ˌfɑːm/UK/ˈɡlib ˌfɑɹm/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from *fermos✻
  2. derived from firmus — “solid, secure”
  3. derived from *perkʷ-✻ — “life, force, strength, tree”
  4. derived from *ferhwō✻ — “life force, body, being”
  5. derived from *fermō✻
  6. derived from feorm — “rent, provision, supplies, feast”
  7. derived from ferma
  8. derived from ferme — “rent, lease, farm”
  9. inherited from ferme
  10. compounded as glebe farm — “glebe + farm”

Definitions

  1. A home farm owned by a parish, assigned as part of a benefice to a parish priest, pastor,…

    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.
    • 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.

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