sugarhouse

/ˈʃʊɡərˌhaʊs/
noun
  1. A building where maple sap is boiled to make maple syrup or maple sugar.
    • Every spring, the family visits the sugarhouse to watch the syrup being made.
    • The old sugarhouse still has the large evaporator used for boiling sap.
    • We bought fresh maple candy directly from the sugarhouse on the farm.
  2. A factory or facility where sugar is refined from raw materials like sugarcane or sugar beets.
    • The sugarhouse near the river processed tons of sugarcane each day.
    • Workers at the sugarhouse carefully monitor the crystallization process.
    • The town's economy depended on the sugarhouse that employed hundreds of people.
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