Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Crude turpentine obtained from the maritime pine.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The turpentine which concretes upon the stem of Pinus Pinaster.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An impure resin of turpentine, hardened on the outside of pine trees by the spontaneous evaporation of its essential oil. When purified, it is called yellow pitch, white pitch, or Burgundy pitch.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An unrefined turpentine obtained from some European pines

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French.]

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French galipot; compare Old French garipot ("the wild pine or pitch tree").

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Examples

  • Then you must know the special marks of this kind of tree and that, the galipot of the pine, the bark of deciduous trees, the moss that grows at their roots, the angle of the south and north-pointing branches, the stones that are moss-covered and those that are bare, and the pattern of the network of veins in the leaves.

    Look Back on Happiness 2003

  • Then you must know the special marks of this kind of tree and that, the galipot of the pine, the bark of deciduous trees, the moss that grows at their roots, the angle of the south and north-pointing branches, the stones that are moss-covered and those that are bare, and the pattern of the network of veins in the leaves.

    Look Back on Happiness Knut Hamsun 1905

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