sugar orchard

noun

, Chiefly New England and South Midland U.S..

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

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

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.

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