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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a dark variety of maple sugar or taffy.
Quotations
1903
. . . he always had his pockets full of sugar sticks, "black man," bulls' eyes, peppermints, and such like, for the children. . . .
1926
The scented forest . . . the new basswood troughs, and cedar spiles, the great fires and steaming kettles, the hot-brown sap, the "black man" and molasses--they haunt an old man's memory still. . . .