sap bush

noun

, Chiefly Hudson Valley.

1. sugarbush ( def 2 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of sap bush¹

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85

Example Sentences

The reader can get some insight into the seemingly mysterious power he held for so many years, when it was known that so great was his thirst for knowledge that he was glad to wrap bits of a rag carpet about his feet and thus shod walk through the snow two miles to borrow a history of the French Revolution, which he mastered at night, stretched before 'the sap bush fire.'

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He seemed to take my whole world with him, and on that and the following day I went about my duties in the sap bush in a wistful and pensive mood I had never before felt.

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I remember that I found up in the sap bush a brood of young screech owls just out of the nest and I killed them all.

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The sap- bush was not very far away from the house, and the sap-boiling was under the direction of my mother, who mustered all the pots and kettles she could command, and when they were properly suspended over the fire on wooden hooks, she watched them, and rocked me in a sap-trough.

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Then the sap bush in the groin of the hill, and but a few minutes' walk from the house, what a feature that was!

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