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sapin
Also 5–6 -yn, 7 -ine.
[a. OF. (and mod.F.) sapin, ad. L. sapīnus.]
A kind of fir or pine. Usually sapin tree.
1323–4Ely Sacr. Rolls (1907) II. 47 In xxiv arboribus de sapin empt. pro stagyngg, 2i8s od. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon ix. 242, I lefte hym here by this sapyn tre. 1526Grete Herball xv. (1529) B j, Agaryke is an excrescens that groweth nyghe to the rote of a sapyn tre. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. iv, They pul from the said Sapins great abundance of rosin. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies v. xxvi. 403 Which they died blacke with the fume of sapine, or firre trees, or rosine. 1793E. Wynne Diary 14 Sept. (1935) I. xii. 216 Not such Sapin and Pine woods as in the Country of St. Gall but Oak's. 1813A. Henry Jrnl. 14 Dec. in E. Coues New Light Early Hist. Greater Northwest (1897) II. xxiv. 772 The place is deeply shaded with spruce, pine, sapin, etc. 1927Brit. Weekly 1 Sept. 470/3 Across the valley..are the mountain slopes, with the valient sapins sending their spear points, in massed formation, to the highest level at which a tree can grow. |
