sugar ((n.))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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sugar obtained by boiling the sap of certain maple trees, especially the sugar maple.

Quotations

1780

There is on it an excellent Maple Sucrerie, capable of producing annually from 300 to 600 w. of Sugar.

1786

The sugar, when cold, is of a reddish brown colour, somewhat transparent, and very pleasant to the taste.

1828

Sugarie is a plot of forest lands in which maple-trees abound, and where sugar is made from the sap.