epinette

[< Cdn F épinette]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

any of the various species of spruce.

Quotations

1793

A river also flowed from the right, and the land was high and rocky, and wooded with the epinette.

1853

The gum of the epinette had to be boiled and mixed with a little grease, so as to form a species of wax [suitable for paying a canoe].

2n.

spruce gum.

1883

He then bathed the wound with a decoction of epinette, which is much used in the country for external applications.