wood

Obs. or Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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of a steamboat or locomotive, take on wood for fuel.

Quotations

1892

Next day they spent three hours "wooding" five miles before reaching Fort Norman, where 150 "pieces" went ashore.

1922

Never was freight unloaded and the boat wooded in quicker time.