hog fuel

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English

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Etymology

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  • 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.

Noun

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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".