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sugar-kettle

Maple Industry

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a large cauldron used to contain the maple sap that is boiled in sugaring-off.

See: sap-boiler,sap tank,sugar boiler(def. 1)

Quotations

1852

The very first day a terrible accident happened to us; a large log fell upon the sugar-kettle--the borrowed sugar-kettle--and cracked it, spilling all the sap, and rendering the vessel, which had cost four dollars, useless.

1927

Here he [Daniel Massey, Bond Head, UC, 1846] made ploughs, scufflers, sugar kettles and repairs for threshers.