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hog fuel

hog fuel noun: 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".

Noun

hog fuel (countable and uncountable, plural hog fuels)

  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".

Forms of hog fuel

pluralhog fuels

Origin of hog fuel

* 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.

Questions about hog fuel

What does hog fuel mean?
Hog fuel means 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".
What part of speech is hog fuel?
Hog fuel is a noun.
What is the plural of hog fuel?
The plural of hog fuel is hog fuels.

Words near hog fuel in the dictionary

  1. hog feast
  2. hog feasts
  3. hog fennel
  4. hog fever
  5. hog flu
  6. hog fuel
  7. hog fuels
  8. hog grass
  9. hog gum
  10. hog gum tree
  11. hog gum trees

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