sugarhouse
See also: sugar-house and sugar house
English
Alternative forms
- sugar house
- sugar-house
Etymology
sugar + house
Noun
sugarhouse (plural sugarhouses)
- (historical) A factory for the refining of raw sugar from Barbados.
- (Canada) A small cabin or shack where sap collected from sugar maples is boiled into maple syrup.
Synonyms
- (cabin for boiling sap): sugar shack, sugar shanty
Derived terms
- sugar-house molasses, sugarhouse molasses