Obs. Also Sc. suckar kist.
1. A chest for sugar.
1549. Acc. 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.
1545. Ascham, Toxoph. (Arb.), 123. Steles be made of dyuerse woodes, as … Sugercheste.
1567. Golding, Ovid’s Met., IX. (1593), 230. From underneath a sugarchest [trans. sub ilice].
1585. Higins, Junius’ Nomencl., 149/1. Alnus nigra,… the blacke alder tree: some take it to be that which is commonly called sugerchest.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Evano, Ebenus, sugarchest.
1609. J. Davies, Holy Roode, Ep. Ded. 14. To Flesh and Blood this Tree but Wormewood seemes, How ere the same may be of Suger-chest.
1683. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., Printing, vii. I us’d to make them or 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.
