maple sirup

Noun

maple sirup (countable and uncountable, plural maple sirups)

1. Dated spelling of maple syrup.
   • The thirteen gallons honey yielded one and a half gallons of the skimmings, to which I added as much water and nearly a pint of skim milk, put it into a kettle, put that over the fire, heat, skimmed, and fined it down, the like as clarifying maple sirup, for sugar.1833 June 10, J. Hawley, “Currant Wine”, in The Genesee Farmer, volume III, number 24, published 15 June 1833, page 186, column 3
   • This evening, when the meat was cooked, the mother brought out a birch-bark bucket full of maple sirup.1904, Julia Augusta Schwartz, “The Indian Feast”, in Five Little Strangers and How They Came to Live in America, New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Oh.; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company, section “The...