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sap-bucket Maple Industry 
1 n. Hist. a container, usually of wood, used for catching the maple sap running from the spile in a tree.
See also: sap-trough spile
- 1897 Sap troughs, hundreds, were prepared, deepened to receive the maple sap. . . . These troughs or sap buckets were carefully emptied into pails or tubs, and the precious sap carried to the boiling pots.
- 1923 "I can't never pay fer them sap-buckets now."
- 1960 [Caption] An exhibit of maple sugar-making equipment in the Dalziel Barn museum [included] . . . sap buckets and maple sugar moulds.
- 1967 [Advert.] Auction Sale . . . sap buckets and pans; 100 bales of hay; coaloil lamps. . .
2 n. a wooden receptacle equipped with a handle and used for carrying sap from the tree to the sugar house.
See also: sap-carrier
- 1909 His sap-troughs--there being no sap buckets in those days [1853]--were full, as there was a good run of sap that spring.
- 1947 It is time . . . to get . . . sap buckets down from the beams of the woodshed.
- 1897 Sap troughs, hundreds, were prepared, deepened to receive the maple sap. . . . These troughs or sap buckets were carefully emptied into pails or tubs, and the precious sap carried to the boiling pots.