sugarloaf

sugarloaf
/shoog"euhr lohf'/, n., pl. sugarloaves /-lohvz'/.
1. a large, usually conical loaf or mass of hard refined sugar: the common form of household sugar until the mid-19th century.
2. anything resembling this in shape.
[1375-1425; late ME]

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