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rock maple Esp.Maritimes 
the sugar maple (def. 1); also, the hard wood of this tree.
See also: sugar maple (def. 1)
- 1774 This town . . . affords a great store of fine timber . . . white and black ash; white mapple; rock mapple (a very fine wood for household furniture). . . .
- 1832 The rock maple [is] . . . a very hard wood, but not durable in exposed situations. . . .
- 1954 Here there were . . . hills clothed with white maple and rock maple. . . .
- 1957 As we left the shipyard, he was climbing like an aged cat about the framework of oak and rock maple.
- 1774 This town . . . affords a great store of fine timber . . . white and black ash; white mapple; rock mapple (a very fine wood for household furniture). . . .