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plantation

• 1 † n. Hist. See 1927 quote.

  • 1620  The purpose thereof, is, with your Gracious allowance, to beget a disposition in all your Maiesties Subiects, for a Plantation in the New-found-land, grounded vpon reason of industry, both generally and particularly profitable to the Vndertakers and Posterities.
  • 1793  Upon full consideration of all these circumstances, their Lordships proposed, that all plantations in Newfoundland should be discouraged; and, in order thereunto, that the commander of the convoy should have commission to declare to all the planters, to come voluntarily away.
  • 1842  Next, the middle-man or planter, as he is most absurdly called, --probably from all the original English settlements in American having received the official designation of plantations; but the Newfoundland planter has had in reality as little to do with cultivating the soill as an Esquimaux.
  • 1927  Prior to 1860, vessels constructed in British North America were registered as being "British Plantation Built"-- the term "Plantation" meaning "Colony."

• 2 † n. Obs. a farm or holding of farm land.

  • 1764  The said Seigneurie [is] capable of containing upwards of 500 Plantations in more than 3 Concession Depth on each Side the River. . . .
  • 1837  Convenient Plantation Lots were laid out in the most eligible situations, and advertised for Sale at Public Auction.

• 3 n. Fur Trade, Obs. the land and buildings of a trading post or fort, especially one belonging to the Hudson's Bay Company.

  • 1696  (1929)  Our people shot 2 Geese near ye plantation.
  • 1773  (1908)  But what I am most surprised at, they [Montreal traders] keep no watch in the night; even when the Natives are lying on their plantation.
  • 1775  (1951)  The Men [at Cumberland House] employed Cutting & Setting up Firewood in Piles to clear the Plantation. . . .
  • 1923  Beef, potatoes, and pork were raised on the "plantation," as it [York Factory] was called in those days.
  • 1941  Plantation--The first establishments were referred to as such. History does not record if there were any piccaninnies on deck.

• 4 n. Lumbering a reforested tract of land in an area previously cut over.

  • 1928  Derosier . . . agreed not to set foot upon the Harris plantations. . . .
  • 1963  A ten-year-old plantation of Douglas fir. These trees were two years old when planted in the spring of 1948 and twelve year old (twelve growing seasons) when photographed in the winter of 1957.