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boiling place
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a building where sugaring-off (def. 1) takes place.
Quotations
1853
As soon as the vessel is full of [maple] sap, it is driven to the boiling place, and emptied into the store-trough.
2
a stopping place on the trail, where the kettle is boiled for tea.
See: boil-up place
Quotations
1956
Perhaps they [wolves] have some doggish instinct or maybe they are just curious; but they certainly like to poke around a camp or a boiling-place after the traveller has pulled away, on the chance of picking up some morsel of food he may have overlooked or discarded.