Definition of "glebe-land" [glebe-land]

• Area of land belonging to a parish in medieval times. (noun)

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• "The archdeacon, who was a very wealthy man, had purchased a property at Plumstead, contiguous to the glebe-land, and had thus come to exercise in the parish the double duty of rector and squire."
• "Certainly not Jim Irwin, the possessor of the new kind of "living," with its "glebe-land" and its "schoolmanse.""
• "Jim turned over and over in his mind these new applications of old, historic, significant words, dear to every reader of history -- "glebe-land," "schoolmanse" -- and it seemed to him that they signified the return of many old things lost in Merrie England, lost in"