English Explanatory Dictionary

hog fuel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An unprocessed mixture of coarse chips of bark and wood fiber. Pieces run from a coarse grade of less than 5" to a fine grade of less than 2".

Word forms

hog fuel hog fuels

Etymology

* Possibly from a nickname, hammer hog, of the grinding machine used to create it. * The word for "chopped/hacked" in Norwegian is hogge (past tense hogde); chopped wood has been hogde. Hogde fuel may have morphed into hogged fuel.

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