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n.
a syrup made from the sap of certain maple trees, especially the sugar maple.
Quotations
1834
"I might indeed collect a keg of the molasses of the maple sugar, and having flavoured it with wild herbs, I might make honey such as my father loveth, but I am afraid my father would detect the cheat."
1863
The dark amber-coloured molasses had stood and settled for some days in deep wooden troughs, before his other avocations . . . allowed him to come up to the Cedars and give the finishing touch.
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. . . .