Meaning

(Jamaica, historical) One of several stockaded mountain farms established, after the invasion of Jamaica by England in the late 17th century, by people of colour who had lived on the island under Spanish rule..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Jamaica, historical) One of several stockaded mountain farms established, after the invasion of Jamaica by England in the late 17th century, by people of colour who had lived on the island under Spanish rule.
2. (Jamaica, historical) A plot of land on a hill near a plantation, allotted to enslaved people for growing food.

Example Sentences

1758, An Enquiry concerning the Trade, Commerce, and Policy of Jamaica, relative to the Scarcity of Money, cited in The Monthly Review, August, 1758, p. 140, 360 polinks and provision plantations, containing each 200 acres […]

About four miles North and North-west from the town is another range of hills; over which is scattered a great number of polinks, or places applied entirely to the cultivation of garden-stuff, fruits, and such sort of provision, for the town-market.

[…] he has a house in Spanish-town, a pen, or a farm, adjoining; and a polink, or mountain for provisions […]

Of the slaves that had joined the Maroons, the whole number appeared to have come from a few adjacent plantations and polinks;

For one and a half days each week, Saturday afternoon and Sundays, the slaves were freed from formal plantation labour to work their provision grounds or “polinks” (as distinct from the tiny plots or yards close to their houses).

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