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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See maple.

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Examples

  •  The wrought-iron etagere and assorted knick-knacks, their rock-maple dinette set, pine bedroom suite.

    Garden 2010

  • I continually built houses, towns, parks and circuses from a grander set of rock-maple building-blocks than any that were then available in the upper South.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

  • I continually built houses, towns, parks and circuses from a grander set of rock-maple building-blocks than any that were then available in the upper South.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

  • Then a huge old rock-maple tree fell across one of the magic paths leading to Castle Roogna.

    Centaur Aisle Anthony, Piers 1981

  • Then a huge old rock-maple tree fell across one of the magic paths leading to Castle Roogna.

    Centaur Aisle Anthony, Piers 1981

  • We had two heavy, though slender, rock-maple paddles, one of them of bird's-eye maple.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

  • The prevailing wood seemed to be spruce, fir, birch, and rock-maple.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

  • This was the amber toll from the rock-maple, discovered long ago by the

    Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear Clarence Hawkes 1901

  • The announcement briefly described the farm property, and among other values mentioned five hundred cords of rock-maple wood ready to cut and go to market.

    A Busy Year at the Old Squire's 1887

  • The first is in sap-time, when maple sugar is being made in the little shack on the borders of the rock-maple grove.

    In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879

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