sugar orchard
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sugar orchard
An Americanism dating back to 1825–35
Example Sentences
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He has a sugar orchard, where he taps twelve hundred trees and hopes soon to tap as many more in addition.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore
The contiguity of a salt lick and a sugar orchard, though not indispensable, was a very desirable circumstance.
From The First White Man of the West Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky; Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country. by Flint, Timothy
They paid no attention to the amazed yells of inquiry from the horse-swappers, and disappeared behind the sugar orchard.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman
But he tore past, his horse still on the run, the wagon swaying wildly as he turned the corner beyond the Merrithew sugar orchard.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman
There would be a sugar orchard that made many hundred pounds of sugar, and she would make the syrup and care for it.
From The American Country Girl by Crow, Martha Foote
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