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rock maple

Esp.Maritimes

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the sugar maple (def. 1); also, the hard wood of this tree.

See: sugar maple(def. 1)

Quotations

1774

This town . . . affords a great store of fine timber . . . white and black ash; white mapple; rock mapple (a very fine wood for household furniture). . . .

1832

The rock maple [is] . . . a very hard wood, but not durable in exposed situations. . . .

1954

Here there were . . . hills clothed with white maple and rock maple. . . .

1957

As we left the shipyard, he was climbing like an aged cat about the framework of oak and rock maple.