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sap-trough
Maple Industry, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a container, usually of wood, used for catching the maple sap running from the spile in a tree.
See: spile
Quotations
1852, 1881
Is it to be like the big sap-trough in the sugar-bush at home?
1909
His sap-troughs . . . were full, as there was a good run of sap that spring.
1933
The Mohawk Indians commonly used a hollowed-out basswood log for a sap trough, the log being burned out as much as possible and then cleaned out with a stone adze.