Definition of "glebe-house" [glebe-house]

• A rectory, built for the parish priest, vicar, pastor, or rector, usually at church expense. (noun)

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• "She was hungry, and as she walked she ate a piece of bread taken from the glebe-house larder."
• "Darden came at times, sat in Mistress Stagg's sunny parlor, and talked to his sometime ward much as he had talked in the glebe-house living room, -- discursively, of men and parochial affairs and his own unmerited woes."
• "The glebe-house was about a couple of miles from Kelly's Court, and it was about half-past four when Lord Ballindine got there."