sapinn.
A kind of fir or pine. Usually sapin tree.
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1323–4 in F. R. Chapman Sacrist Rolls Ely (1907) II. 47 In xxiv arboribus de sapin empt. pro stagyngg, 2i8s od.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) ix. 242 I lefte hym here by this sapyn tre.
1526 Grete Herball xv. sig. Bj/1 Agaryke is an excrescens that groweth nyghe to ye rote of a sapyn tre.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. iv They pul from the said Sapins great abundance of rosin.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. xxvi. 403 Which they died blacke with the fume of sapine, or firre trees, or rosine.
1793 E. Wynne Diary 14 Sept. (1935) I. xii. 216 Not such Sapin and Pine woods as in the Country of St. Gall but Oak's.
1813 A. Henry Jrnl. 14 Dec. (1992) II. 624 The Country here is deeply shaded with Spruce, Pine, Sapin, &c.
1927 Brit. Weekly 1 Sept. 470/3 Across the valley..are the mountain slopes, with the valient sapins sending their spear points, in massed formation, to the highest level at which a tree can grow.
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