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wooding-up
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the taking on of wood for fuel by steamers.
See: wood up
Quotations
1872
Captain Bell's style of wooding-up contrasted favorably with that of the captain of the Frances Smith.
1928
Awakened before daylight by a series of bumps, followed by the grind of the winch and the sound of shouted orders, I peered out to find the searchlight playing along a pile of cut spruce and the Thomas just mooring for its first wooding-up.
1939
Slabs of bacon were thrown into the fire-box of the boiler until a wooding-up place could be reached.
1945
. . . to go ashore from the ferry-boat you walked across their decks among wheel-barrows of the "wooding-up" gangs.