wood burner
English
Noun
wood burner (plural wood burners)
- (UK) A heater or stove that burns wood for fuel.
- (rail transport, chiefly historical) A steam locomotive fuelled with wood instead of coal or oil, mainly used in areas with a plentiful supply of wood.
- 1962 June, “Beyond the Channel: Finland: The V.R in their centenary year”, in Modern Railways, page 418:
- A considerable number of engines are wood-burners, although with ample supplies of soft coal from Russia, the adherence to wood-burning may be nothing more than a form of Government subsidy to the timber trade.
Alternative forms
- wood-burner
Related terms
References
- “wood burner”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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