| 单词 | sugar-camp |
| 释义 | > as lemmassugar-camp sugar-camp n. U.S. a place in a maple forest or plantation where the sap is collected and boiled for sugar. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > from maple sap > place where sugar-camp1779 sugary1840 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > place of maple-sugar collection sugar-camp1779 1779 M. Patten Diary (1903) 400 I went to our shugar Camp and covered some fire steads with brush where we had Cabbage and french Turnip seed sowed to preserve them from Cattle. 1805 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) 49 He informed me that..the sugar camp near the stockade was where he made sugar. 1805 R. Sutcliff Trav. N. Amer. (1811) 184 I saw several sugar camps..where the sap is collected in small wooden troughs. 1868 J. G. Whittier Among Hills 381 In sugar-camps, when south and warm The winds of March are blowing. 1959 R. E. Campbell I would do it Again ii. 7 The neighbours gathered at the sugar camps. 1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxxviii. 66 Sugar camp. This characteristically Midland [Illinois] term appears only once in the field interviews but with much more frequency in the checklists. < as lemmas |
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