glebe farm
/ˈɡlib ˌfɑɹm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.63 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "One of the Earls of Eglinton, in 1734, had made an excambion with the minister of Beith, and the glebe farm thus acquired by the minister was said to have been at one time worth £200 per annum, and to be still worth £150, besides the full size of an ordinary glebe."
- "A silver coin of Edward the Confessor was found on the glebe-farm, in digging a well, in 1833."
- "I must not reckon on more than two thousand three hundred at present, and of that nine hundred and fifty is the great tithe, and the rent of the Glebe farm is three hundred and seventy."
- "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, […]"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡlib ˌfɑɹm/
- British English: /ˈɡliːb ˌfɑːm/
Usage
- British usage