caneland

English

Etymology

From cane +‎ land.

Noun

caneland (plural canelands)

1. Land used for the growing of sugar cane.
   • 1984, B W Higman, Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834:

     According to William McMahon's map of 1828, 44 percent of the island was caneland.

   • 1965, Lawrence Alan Eyre, Land and Population in the Sugar Belt of Jamaica:

     This reflects a considerable local migration from the peasant areas of the parish into the canelands.