(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.
(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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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(chiefly, British) A rectory, built for the parish priest, vicar, pastor, or rector, usually at church expense.
(British) A farm, with its associated buildings; a farmhouse, particularly one associated with a monastic order, or manor.
(UK) Part of a country estate that is farmed by the landowner or an employed farm manager, while most of the estate is rented out to tenant farmers.
A US term for the residence of a church minister or the administrative building attached to a church parish. Equivalent to a rectory or vicarage in British usage. The term is used across various Christian denominations in American English.
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