(chiefly, UK, Christianity) 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.
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