See also: sugaring-hut sugaring-off (def. 1)
- 1853  As soon as the vessel is full of [maple] sap, it is driven to the boiling place, and emptied into the store-trough.
2 a stopping place on the trail, where the kettle is boiled for tea.
See also: boil-up place
- 1956  Perhaps they [wolves] have some doggish instinct or maybe they are just curious; but they certainly like to poke around a camp or a boiling-place after the traveller has pulled away, on the chance of picking up some morsel of food he may have overlooked or discarded.