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sirup

British  
/ ˈsɪrəp /

noun

  1. a less common spelling of syrup

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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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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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I had not altogether overlooked this fact when I asked the factory people where they got the water for the sirup of the preserves.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train

He will also take care not to burn the sirup by urging the fire toward the end of the operation.

From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by John S. Springer

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 Noah Webster

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