sugar n OED sugar-loaf 2 b (1691-).
Attrib, comb sugar-berry: nodding trillium, with sweet-scented flower (Trillium cernman) (1956 ROULEAU 38).
sugar hurt, ~ whort: dwarf bilberry (Vaccinium cespitosum); HURT (1898 J A Folklore xi, 273).
sugar-loaf: in designation of a prominent hill resembling in its shape a cone of refined sugar. TOLT. Also attrib.
[c1625] Willoughby Papers 1/60 [He] may Fish ther att [New Perlican], or sugarloafe [cove] near [adjoined]
wher is vsually as good Fishing as is any in the land. [1669] 1963 YONGE 117 The wind south and fair weather, we stand in for the Sugar Loaf (a high headland between St John's and Torbay, resembling a sugar
loaf). [1786] 1792 CARTWRIGHT iii, 207 The extremity of Cape Ray is a low, flat point; close to which is the
most remarkable sugar-loaf hill I ever saw: it rises so very steep to a sharp point, that the sides are streaked
with small stones by the rain washing away the earth.1842 JUKES ii, 299 Three remarkable sugar-loaf hills
rise from the low land which forms the projecting point of [Cape Ray]. 1951 Nfld & Lab Pilot i, 366 Several
detached summits, known as the Sugar Loaves, are situated within 1½ miles north-eastward of the head of
Goose arm.
sugar tea: tea sweetened with sugar, rather than molasses, for special occasions.
T 49-64 Well, you might have a pound or two, just for anyone that come in, a stranger or anything come in, give him a cup o' sugar tea. T 187/8-65 I never drinked a cup o' sugar tea, not for forty years, I suppose. An' I never drinked [a] cup o' molasses tea for forty years or over.
