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Maple Industry
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n. — Hist.
a container, usually of wood, used for catching the maple sap running from the spile in a tree.
Quotations
1897
Sap troughs, hundreds, were prepared, deepened to receive the maple sap. . . . These troughs or sap buckets were carefully emptied into pails or tubs, and the precious sap carried to the boiling pots.
1923
"I can't never pay fer them sap-buckets now."
1960
[Caption] An exhibit of maple sugar-making equipment in the Dalziel Barn museum [included] . . . sap buckets and maple sugar moulds.
1967
[Advert.] Auction Sale . . . sap buckets and pans; 100 bales of hay; coaloil lamps. . .
2n.
a wooden receptacle equipped with a handle and used for carrying sap from the tree to the sugar house.
See: sap-carrier
Quotations
1909
His sap-troughs--there being no sap buckets in those days [1853]--were full, as there was a good run of sap that spring.
1947
It is time . . . to get . . . sap buckets down from the beams of the woodshed.