Polink

Quick meaning: Polink is a noun meaning (Jamaica, historical) A plot of land on a hill near a plantation, allotted to enslaved people for growing food.

Meaning

(Jamaica, historical) A plot of land on a hill near a plantation, allotted to enslaved people for growing food.

More Meanings

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.

Example Sentences

[…] 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;

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 […]

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).

Word Forms

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