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alt. 1 In former times, a factory for the refining of raw sugar from Barbados. 2 (context in Canada English) A small cabin or shack where sap collected from sugar maples is boiled into maple syrup. n. 1 In former times, a factory for the refining of raw sugar from Barbados. 2 (context in Canada English) A small cabin or shack where sap collected from sugar maples is boiled into maple syrup.
Wikipedia
Sugarhouse is a British urban thriller movie, starring Steven Mackintosh, Ashley Walters, Andy Serkis and Adam Deacon. The low-budget thriller is based on the stage play Collision. The film was released on 24 August 2007.
Usage examples of "sugarhouse".
Needing to do something useful, he pulled on his jeans, pushed his feet into boots and his arms into a parka, went out back to the sugarhouse, and flipped on the lights.
Then one day, when the sap was boiling hard and he and a crew were late in the sugarhouse, she stayed to put the girls to bed.
Crossing the clearing to the sugarhouse, he went straight to the woodpile inside.
By the time they had gone all the way back down the hill and reached the sugarhouse, though, his arms were as tired as his thighs.
When Micah started tossing wood from the sled to the top of the pile by the sugarhouse wall, Griffin chipped right in.
Inside the sugarhouse, he went to the pile of wood, uncovered the worn canvas pack, and set it on the worktable.
Once the sap began to run and the sugarhouse came alive, the girls would go home again.
It would take that long for enough sap to run from tree through lateral line to mainline to sugarhouse, to warrant firing up the evaporator.
They hung up the phone, finished what they were doing, and rushed to the sugarhouse laden with enough food and drink to feed the sugar maker his assistants, and as many visitors as chose to drop by.
Steam billowed from the cupola of the sugarhouse, drifting up through the tops of the trees and into the sky over town.
Early on they threw their jackets aside, because the sugarhouse was warm.
Griffin was at the sugarhouse until nearly midnight that night, until past eleven on Wednesday, and midnight again on Thursday.
On this score, in the sugarhouse, with the girls, he had a purpose, a reason.
Conversely, its proximity to the sugarhouse made it a final destination for the rest of the lines, which meant that it was crucial.
No sap at all would make it to the sugarhouse tanks until it was fixed.