Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In maple-sugar manufacturing, a bucket into which the sap flows from the tree when it has been tapped.

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Examples

  • With the pressure against the tree the sap-bucket had become wedged so tightly upon his head that it refused to come off.

    Followers of the Trail Zoe Meyer

  • The other day in my walk I came upon a sap-bucket that had been left standing by the maple tree all the spring and summer.

    Time and Change John Burroughs 1879

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