Also 7 suggarie. [for *sugarery, f. SUGAR sb.: see -ERY and cf. F. sucrerie.]
1. A sugar-manufactory. Obs. exc. as in b.
1696. Acts Parl. Scot., Will. (1823), X. 66/2. The Manufactory of Sugar commonly called the Suggarie.
b. U.S. and Canada. A place where maple-juice is collected and boiled for the purpose of making sugar; a sugar-camp.
1840. P. H. Gosse, Canadian Nat., 67. We will go into the Sugary, where the men are collecting the sap from the maple-trees.
1849. R. L. Allen, Amer. Farm Bk., 221. The primitive mode of arranging the sugary, is with large receiving troughs placed near, or partially within the cabin, and capable of holding several hundred gallons of sap.
† 2. Sugar-manufacture. Obs.
1747. State of Sugar-Trade, 6. These Computations are made upon the whole British Sugary.
