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/fjˈuəl/ /fjul/ Listen

noun

Fuel n. (Formerly written also fewel)

Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.

Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement.

Artificial fuel, fuel consisting of small particles, as coal dust, sawdust, etc., consolidated into lumps or blocks.

verb

Fuel v. t.

To feed with fuel. (Obs.) "Never, alas I the dreadful name, That fuels the infernal flame."

To store or furnish with fuel or firing. (Obs.) "Well watered and well fueled."

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Etymology of 'Fuel'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fuel" Quotes from Famous Books

... lull to make myself heard: I did but heap fuel on fire, though the old man's splenetic ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... for he had slept long in spite of his troublous dream. Then his thoughts turned to the steamer and Bob Roberts, whose frank, happy face was always before him, and then somehow he thought of the steamer and its powerful engine, and how it was kept going with fuel and water; and that set him thinking of himself. How was he to help his friends if he let himself get weak for ...

— Middy and Ensign • G. Manville Fenn

... Australian bush had evidently made him fertile of resource, now rummaged out from among his baggage a diminutive but effective cooking apparatus, the fuel for which was supplied from a goodly jar of spirit stowed away in the eyes of the boat; and, initiating the steward into the peculiarities of its management and explaining to him its capabilities, an appetising breakfast ...

— The Pirate Island - A Story of the South Pacific • Harry Collingwood

... of the houses at Tucker was no better than the outside. Each habitation had a walled court-yard. The top of the wall, as well as the edge of the flat roof of the house, was lined with masses of tamarisk for fuel. In the court-yard sheep and goats were penned at night. The human beings who occupied the rooms were dirty beyond all description. There were hundreds of flying-prayers over the monastery, as well ...

— An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet • A. Henry Savage Landor

... points—first, upon the disarmings, as distinguished from the desertions; secondly, upon the amount, and probable equipment, and supposed route of stragglers. It is now said that the mutiny has burned itself out from mere defect of fuel; there can be no more revolts of sepoys, seeing that no sepoys now remain to revolt; that is, of the Bengal force. But in this general statement a great distinction is neglected. Regiments once disarmed, if also stripped of their private ...

— The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey--Vol. 1 - With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg • Thomas de Quincey

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