sugar-maker

Maple Industry

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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one who engages in making maple sugar.

Quotations

1804

[I] sent Déseve with a Bag of Oats to my Sugar Makers.

1845

The sugar-maker's bark-covered hut contains his bedding and provisions. . . .

1899

In early spring there was the sugar making. Not infrequently would the sugar-makers remain in the woods most of the night boiling down the sap.