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hard maple 
the sugar maple, Acer saccharum, or the black maple, Acer nigrum; also, the wood of either of these trees.
- 1790 (1905) Timber, Hard Maple, Bass, and Black walnut, from this place to River la French, 22 miles.
- 1863 "This 'ere sugar bush is . . . mostly hard maple, an' the right age. Soft maple don't make nothing but molasses, hardly--them with whitish skin; so you are safe to chop 'em down."
- 1957 Hard maple and its magic contents are concentrated in the Laurentian valley, with offshoots into the Maritimes and New England.
- 1790 (1905) Timber, Hard Maple, Bass, and Black walnut, from this place to River la French, 22 miles.