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sugar boiler Maple Industry

• 1 a large cauldron used to contain the maple sap that is boiled in sugaring-off.

  See also: sugar-kettle  

  • 1853  The common way in use by the settlers is, to suspend their sugar-boilers over the fire from a thick pole, by means of iron chains. . . .

• 2 in sugaring-off, the person in charge of the sugar-kettle.

  See also: sugar-kettle  

  • 1853  Great attention must now be paid by the sugar boiler.