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sugar-hut

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a building where sugaring-off (def. 1) takes place.

See: sugaring-hut,sugaring-off(def. 1),cabane à sucre,sugar shack

Quotations

1805

. . . this forenoon [two] Squaws arrived from the Sugar Huts intoxicated. . . .

1836

Two young persons of the name of Scott, were nearly killed in their sugar hut (Cabane) by the fall of a Maple.

1863

And if, perchance, camped for the night out on the mountain brow in a deserted sugar-hut, you hear the terrible hooting of the great horned owl, fear nothing; it is not the evil one.