sugar orchard


nounChiefly New England and South Midland U.S..

Origin of sugar orchard

1
An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

Words Nearby sugar orchard

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How to use sugar orchard in a sentence

  • There would be a sugar orchard that made many hundred pounds of sugar, and she would make the syrup and care for it.

    The American Country Girl | Martha Foote Crow
  • But he tore past, his horse still on the run, the wagon swaying wildly as he turned the corner beyond the Merrithew sugar orchard.

  • They paid no attention to the amazed yells of inquiry from the horse-swappers, and disappeared behind the sugar orchard.

  • My papa has a sugar orchard of three hundred trees, and has made seventeen hundred pounds of sugar this year.

  • The wind blew so hard that they could not breast it and were compelled to alight in a sugar orchard near our place.