glebe-land

noun

Definitions

  1. 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—[..]

The neighborhood

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