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".

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Meanings

nounhog fuel (countable and uncountable, plural hog fuels)

plural hog fuels

  1. countableuncountableAn 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".

Origin

* 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.

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hog fuel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hog%20fuel

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“hog fuel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hog%20fuel. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hog fuel,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hog%20fuel.

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