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
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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
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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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