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English
Etymology
- 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.
Noun
hog fuel (countable and uncountable, plural hog fuels)
- 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".