sugaring

Fordwitch Wood to set the snare, familiar to hunters of moths, which we call sugaring the trees.

The Guilty River Wilkie Collins 1856

The arrangement of the whipcord at C is to enable the net to be used as a "sugaring" net in addition to its ordinary use for catching; C being pressed against a tree, the corner of a wall, a fence, or a gas lamp, etc, readily accommodates itself to any angle required.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

The "sugaring" was on a Saturday, and the party met at the schoolhouse.

Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long

But the snow that actually falls during April is usually only what Vermonters call "sugar-snow," -- falling in the night and just whitening the surface for an hour or two, and taking its name, not so much from its looks as from the fact that it denotes the proper weather for "sugaring," namely, cold nights and warm days.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

Mr. Welton in regard to the right-of-way trouble and the 'sugaring' of

The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909

Linda was great on entomology, and, having a brother who was interested in the subject, had been out "sugaring" in his company in August and September, and had secured some fine specimens of moths.

The Luckiest Girl in the School Angela Brazil 1907

He was out of nights with his net hunting them and "sugaring" trees to attract them, and he even bred them.

The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell Dillon Wallace 1901

Moreover, this "sugaring" of starch goes on in the stomach for twenty to forty minutes after the food has been swallowed.

A Handbook of Health Woods Hutchinson 1896

Mr. Stainton has observed that a brood of young turkeys greedily devoured all the worthless moths he had amassed in a night's "sugaring," yet one after another seized and rejected a single white moth which happened to be among them.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

Stafford also recommends what's called a "sugaring" kit.

Mensfitness.com 2009

The concept, known as “sugaring,” has been around since the early 1900s, when San Francisco socialite Alma de Bretteville coined the term “sugar daddy” in reference to her much older sugar-magnate husband, Adolph Spreckels—and has only grown in the age of online dating.

The Unlikely Story of a Sex Trafficking Survivor and the Instagram Account That Saved Her Life John H. Tucker 2021