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† ˈsugar-chest Obs.
Also Sc. suckar kist.
1. A chest for sugar.
1549Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. IX. 345 For..careing of ane suckar kist furtht of Leytht to Edinburght..vj s.
2. Applied to the hard wood of various trees and to the trees themselves: see quots.
1545R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 123 Steles be made of dyuerse woodes, as..Sugercheste. 1567Golding Ovid's Met. ix. (1593) 230 From underneath a sugarchest [tr. sub ilice]. 1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 149/1 Alnus nigra,..the blacke alder tree: some take it to be that which is commonly called sugerchest. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Evano, Ebenus, sugarchest. 1609J. Davies Holy Roode Ep. Ded. 14 To Flesh and Blood this Tree but Wormewood seemes, How ere the same may be of Suger-chest. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing vii, I us'd to make them of Sugar-Chest; That Stuff being commonly well-season'd, by the long lying of the Sugar in it, and is besides a fine hard Wood. |