sirup
Britishnoun
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Last week Robert Frost was on his farm near Ripton, Vt., where this spring, with his partner, Stafford Dragon, he manufactured 60 gallons of fine maple sirup.
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And no paper cares to folo the trail blazed by the Chicago Tribune into a virgin land of simplified spelling: altho, thru, sirup, burocracy.
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In preparing the bait it is necessary to moisten all the oatmeal with the sirup.
From House Rats and Mice Farmers' Bulletin 896 by Lantz, David E.
And you shall have a buckwheat cake Better than mother used to make, And sirup from the maple wood— Not a vile sorghum “just as good.”
From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston
To boil down, to reduce in bulk by boiling; as, to boil down sap or sirup.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
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