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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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of a steamboat or locomotive, take on wood for fuel.
Quotations
1858
Some ten minutes inside the entrance from Fraser River, the word was passed to "wood up!" and the Umatilla was headed into a quiet little cove . . . where all hands . . . sprang ashore . . . to cut and collect the required fuel.
1888
At one place . . . we drew near the bank to "wood up,"--as taking on board wood for the engines is called. . . .
1945
Hundreds upon hundreds of cords of wood were hauled over the ice . . . to ensure that the firm's steamers might always be able to "wood up". . . . The railways, too, in these early days had to have wood available at frequent intervals along their lines--the passengers sometimes helped to "wood up" the tender.