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wood-burning

wood-burning adjective: designed to, or otherwise capable of, burning wood.

Adjective

wood-burning (not comparable)

  1. Designed to, or otherwise capable of, burning wood.
    • a wood-burning stove
    • When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was re-enacted at each stop...1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325
    Synonyms:
    wood-fired

Synonyms of wood-burning

Forms of wood-burning

alternative formwoodburning

Questions about wood-burning

What does wood-burning mean?
Wood-burning means designed to, or otherwise capable of, burning wood.
What part of speech is wood-burning?
Wood-burning is an adjective.

Words near wood-burning in the dictionary

  1. wood-block
  2. wood-blockist
  3. wood-blockists
  4. wood-blocks
  5. wood-boring
  6. wood-burning
  7. wood-child
  8. wood-children
  9. wood-chip
  10. wood-chips
  11. wood-chuck

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