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patent fuels

patent fuels is the plural of patent fuel.

Meaning of patent fuel

Noun

patent fuel (countable and uncountable, plural patent fuels)

  1. Fuel, usually in the form of briquettes, made from fine, crushed coal with the addition of a binding agent.
    • The originating tonnage of coal class traffic (that is to say coal, coke and patent fuel) for the whole of British Railways in 1957 was 166,153,300 tons, representing half-a-million tons a day and roughly 60 per cent of the total freight traffic.1959 May, R. A. Savill, “The coal traffic of the North Eastern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 272

Questions about patent fuels

What is patent fuels the plural of?
Patent fuels is the plural of patent fuel.

Words near patent fuels in the dictionary

  1. patens
  2. patent
  3. patent ambush
  4. patent ambushes
  5. patent fuel
  6. patent fuels
  7. patent hammer
  8. patent hammers
  9. patent inside
  10. patent insides
  11. patent law

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Adapted from Wiktionary: patent fuels (page history and authors); patent fuel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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