sugar bush DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a grove of sugar maples.
See also: bush ((n.)) (def. 4) maple bush maple grove sap-bush sugar grove sugar orchard sugary (def. 1)
- 1804  (1933)  Henries Squaw & family Came from the Sugar Bush. They say the Maples give no more water.
- 1852  (1923)  The whole block of land was almost entirely covered with maple trees, and had originally been an Indian sugar-bush.
- 1901  Taking each a bundle of spiles and an ax, the boys set out for the part of the sugar bush as yet untapped, and began their work.
- 1966  Every year . . . a reporter must . . . trudge down a muddy lane to somebody's sugar bush and do a story on the annual sap run.