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sugar-making

n. the process of boiling maple sap to make syrup and sugar through evaporation and crystallization.
See also: sugaring sugaring-off (def. 1)
- 1767 (1901) Sugar-making continued till the twelfth of May.
- 1853 The chopping now begins, and may be followed without any interruption until the season for sugar-making commences.
- 1923 There is a quaint old Indian legend, according to which the Redman is held responsible for the manifold labors attendant upon the sugar-making industry.
- 1963 Indian sugar-making was an ancient and very primitive process, and the resulting sugar poor and dirty.