| Bucket cover |
a round metal or wooden lid placed on top of the sap bucket to protect the sap from rain, ice, snow, dirt or leaves |
| Cauldron |
a kettle or very large iron bowl-shaped pot with a hooped handle used for boiling, often more than a metre in diameter |
| Evaporator |
a device for removing excess water from the sap, and making it into syrup, by boiling |
| Filter |
a device, such as a piece of felt or cotton, through which the sap is poured to remove impurities |
| Finishing pot |
in the evaporation process, the last pot used to boil sap until it reached the right thickness of syrup |
| Gathering barrel |
a large barrel, or container fastened to a sled or wagon and used to take sap from the sugar bush to the boiling area |
| Kettle |
an iron pot with a hooped handle, smaller than a cauldron, used for boiling |
| Ladle |
a deep-bowled long-handled spoon used for serving liquids |
| Maple sugar |
a sugar made by boiling down maple syrup, used as a sweetener instead of white sugar |
| Sap |
the clear, water-like, liquid food that trees produce for growth |
| Sap bucket |
the wooden or metal container hung from the spile to collect sap from the maple tree |
| Spile |
a wooden spout, tapered at one end, driven into the tap-hole for drawing sap from a maple tree |
| Spile hook |
the metal hook attached to the spile for hanging a sap bucket |
| Sugar hut |
a building in a sugarbush where maple sap is boiled to produce maple syrup |
| Sugar Maple |
one of many kinds of maple trees found in Eastern North America, and the main producer of sap for maple syrup |
| Sugarbush |
a grove of sugar or black maple trees |
| Tap-hole |
a hole bored into the trunk of a maple tree |
