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sap-trough Maple Industry, Hist.

• n. a container, usually of wood, used for catching the maple sap running from the spile in a tree.

  See also: spile   

  • 1852, 1881  Is it to be like the big sap-trough in the sugar-bush at home?
  • 1909  His sap-troughs . . . were full, as there was a good run of sap that spring.
  • 1933  (1964)  The Mohawk Indians commonly used a hollowed-out basswood log for a sap trough, the log being burned out as much as possible and then cleaned out with a stone adze.