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fewel

fewel is the obsolete spelling of fuel.

Meaning of fuel

Noun

fuel (countable and uncountable, plural fuels)

  1. Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
    • More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
  2. Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
    • A little fuel to get down the mountain.2021 February 16, Charlie Berens and DudeDad, The 5 People on the Ski Slopes
  3. (figuratively) Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
    • His books were fuel for the revolution.

See all 5 meanings of fuel

Questions about fewel

What is fewel the obsolete spelling of?
Fewel is the obsolete spelling of fuel.

Words near fewel in the dictionary

  1. few-flowered sedges
  2. few-shot
  3. few-shot learning
  4. fewa
  5. fewe
  6. fewel
  7. Fewell
  8. Fewells
  9. fewer
  10. fewer and farther between
  11. fewer and further between

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