sugar-kettle

Beneath it a sugar-kettle filled with ebullient tar was standing.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

The person thus addressed had led a young horse to water at the spring which bubbled out of a sugar-kettle hard by; and the horse, quivering, had barely touched his nostrils to the water when he reared backward, jerking the halter-rope taut.

Mr. Crewe's Career — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

The person thus addressed had led a young horse to water at the spring which bubbled out of a sugar-kettle hard by; and the horse, quivering, had barely touched his nostrils to the water when he reared backward, jerking the halter-rope taut.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

The person thus addressed had led a young horse to water at the spring which bubbled out of a sugar-kettle hard by; and the horse, quivering, had barely touched his nostrils to the water when he reared backward, jerking the halter-rope taut.

Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 2 Winston Churchill 1909

The boys were told off in sections, some to get dry cedar boughs from the swamp for the big fire outside, over which the iron sugar-kettle was swung to heat the scrubbing water; others off into the woods for balsam-trees for the evergreen decorations; others to draw water and wait upon the scrubbers.

Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry Ralph Connor 1898

The very first day, a terrible accident happened to us; a large log fell upon the sugar-kettle – the borrowed sugar-kettle – and cracked it, spilling all the sap, and rendering the vessel, which had cost four dollars, useless.

Roughing It in the Bush 1852

I wrote a little note to Emilia, who was still at her father's; and Mr. W —, the storekeeper, sent us a fine sugar-kettle back by Wittals, and also the other mended, in exchange for the useless piece of finery.

Roughing It in the Bush 1852

We had no sugar-kettle, but a neighbour promised to lend us his, and to give us twenty-eight troughs, on condition that we gave him half the sugar we made.

Roughing It in the Bush 1852

We had no sugar-kettle, but a neighbour promised to lend us his, and to give us twenty-eight troughs, on condition that we gave him half the sugar we made.

Life in the Backwoods Susanna Moodie 1844

The very first day, a terrible accident happened to us; a large log fell upon the sugar-kettle -- the borrowed sugar-kettle -- and cracked it, spilling all the sap, and rendering the vessel, which had cost four dollars, useless.

Life in the Backwoods Susanna Moodie 1844