sugar tree

Historical Examples

• The timber is generally ash and maple; except the cedars of the cliffs, the sugar-tree, and ash.

  Travels in North America, From Modern Writers

  William Bingley

• But for the present these were intent upon the sugar-tree, and kept hurrying up the boy with the auger.

  A Boy's Town

  W. D. Howells

• His axe would flash and bite into a sugar-tree or sycamore, and down it would come.

  The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln

  Francis Fisher Browne

• The other glanced in the direction of the sugar-tree, raised his eyebrows, shrugged his shoulders, and returned to his fishing.

  Audrey

  Mary Johnston

• The great bulk of these lands are what are generally denominated 'beech and sugar-tree lands.'

  Old Mackinaw

  W. P. Strickland.