hog fuel

Meaning

Noun

• 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".

Origin

• 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.