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sugar-kettle Maple Industry 
n. a large cauldron used to contain the maple sap that is boiled in sugaring-off.
See also: sap-boiler sap tank sugar boiler (def. 1)
- 1852 (1923) The very first day a terrible accident happened to us; a large log fell upon the sugar-kettle--the borrowed sugar-kettle--and cracked it, spilling all the sap, and rendering the vessel, which had cost four dollars, useless.
- 1927 Here he [Daniel Massey, Bond Head, UC, 1846] made ploughs, scufflers, sugar kettles and repairs for threshers.
- 1852 (1923) The very first day a terrible accident happened to us; a large log fell upon the sugar-kettle--the borrowed sugar-kettle--and cracked it, spilling all the sap, and rendering the vessel, which had cost four dollars, useless.