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sugarhouse
noun[ C ]
US or Canadian English(alsosugar house)uk /ˈʃʊɡ.ə.haʊs/ us /ˈʃʊɡ.ɚ.haʊs/(alsosugar shack)
a small building where sap(= liquid from inside a plant) from trees called sugar maples is made into maple syrup(= a thick, sweet, brown liquid):
The land was full of maple trees, so we built the sugarhouse close to the forest.
A vacuum system sucks air from the plastic tubes that carry the sap from the trees to the sugar house.
I had only been to Quebec once, on a grade 8 trip that involved a visit to a sugar shack.
The sugarhouse was a wooden building with three large rooms.
Many sugar houses are unheated.
I received an invitation to visit one of Quebec's most famous maple syrup production facilities, or sugar shacks.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Sugar & sugar substitutes
agave
agave nectar
aspartame
black treacle
blackstrap molasses
dextrose
fructose
glucose
glucose syrup
golden syrup
maltose
maple sugar
maple syrup
molasses
non-sugar
stevia
sucralose
sucrose
sugar coating
sugary
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