DCHP-1 Online
black-man 
n. a dark variety of maple sugar or taffy.
- 1903 . . . he always had his pockets full of sugar sticks, "black man," bulls' eyes, peppermints, and such like, for the children. . . .
- 1926 The scented forest . . . the new basswood troughs, and cedar spiles, the great fires and steaming kettles, the hot-brown sap, the "black man" and molasses--they haunt an old man's memory still. . . .
- 1903 . . . he always had his pockets full of sugar sticks, "black man," bulls' eyes, peppermints, and such like, for the children. . . .