sugarhouse

See also: sugar-house and sugar house

English

Alternative forms

• sugar house
• sugar-house

Etymology

From sugar +‎ house.

Noun

sugarhouse (plural sugarhouses)

1. (historical) A factory for the refining of raw sugar from Barbados.

   Hypernym: refinery

2. (Canada, New England) A small cabin or shack where sap collected from sugar maples is boiled into maple syrup.

   Synonyms: sugar shack, sugar shanty

   Holonym: sugarbush

Derived terms

• sugar-house molasses, sugarhouse molasses