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sugary [< trans. of Cdn F sucrerie] Hist.

• 1 n. a grove of sugar maples.

  See also: sugar bush  

  • 1780  [There is on it an excellent Maple Sucrerie. . . .]
  • 1828  (1832)  The maple ground occupied by a party is termed a "sugarie". . . .
  • 1898  They feared the destruction of the forests and game, of sugaries and beaver huts and all their means of subsistence.
  • 1903  . . . we shall endeavour to protect your beaver and fishing-grounds; but as for the sugaries, we must make use of them, because the land has already been given us. . . .

• 2 n. the place in a sugar bush where sugaring-off (def. 1) takes place, including the building and equipment.

  See also: sugar-camp  sugaring-off (def. 1)  

  • 1836  On Monday week, a squall blew down a great many trees, and as numbers of persons were at the time employed in the Sugaries, several accidents followed.