sugarhouse
/ˈʃʊɡərˌhaʊs/
noun
- 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.
- 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.