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sugar boiler
Maple Industry
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a large cauldron used to contain the maple sap that is boiled in sugaring-off.
See: sugar-kettle
Quotations
1853
The common way in use by the settlers is, to suspend their sugar-boilers over the fire from a thick pole, by means of iron chains. . . .
2
in sugaring-off, the person in charge of the sugar-kettle.
See: sugar-kettle
Quotations
1853
Great attention must now be paid by the sugar boiler.