sugar tongs (shugartongz)

sing. and pl. An implement having two arms, each furnished at the end with a flat or spoon-shaped plate or a cluster of claws, for use in lifting small lumps of sugar. It is usually made with a flexible back like that of shears for sheep. Also called sugar- nippers. Or would our thrum-capp'd ancestors find fault For want of sugar - tongs , or spoons for salt? W. King, Art of Cookery, 1. 70. sugar-tree (shug'är-trē), n. 1. Any tree from which sugar-syrup or sugary sap can be obtained; particularly, the sugar-maple. See ma ple1.-2. An Australian shrub or small tree, Myoporum platycarpum. gus sacchari, or some other species of the restricted genus Glyciphagus, infesting sugar. These mites abound in some samples of unrefined sugar, and are supposed to cause grocers' itch. Also sugar - louse.