woodburner
woodburner is the alternative form of wood burner.
Meaning of wood burner
Noun
wood burner (plural wood burners)
- A heater or stove that burns wood for fuel.
- A steam locomotive fuelled with wood instead of coal or oil, mainly used in areas with a plentiful supply of wood.
- These wood burners have African drivers with two African firemen who take in turn the two main duties of putting wood into the firebox and moving it forward on the tender.1958 February, Arthur F. Beckenham, “A Journey in the Belgian Congo”, in Railway Magazine, page 93
Forms of woodburner
| plural | woodburners |
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Questions about woodburner
- What is woodburner the alternative form of?
- Woodburner is the alternative form of wood burner.
Words near woodburner in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: woodburner (page history and authors); wood burner (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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