Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
fuel .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Fuel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Archaic spelling of
fuel .
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Examples
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August 14, 2008 at 9:00 am prrrrr prrrr prrrr lindykat iz purched on toppa hur sooped up chevvie 409 fud boul loaded wif lawts of gushifud so she wotn run owt ov fewel.
Optimist: glass half full. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Sometimes we were faine to eate flesh halfe sodden, or almost rawe, and all for want of fewel to seethe it withal: especially when we lay in the fields, or were benighted before we came at our iourneis end: because we could not then conueniently gather together the doung of horses or oxen: for other fewel we found but seldome, except perhaps a few thornes in some places.
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Now, in the same wood there be many riuers, wherein are great store of Crocodiles, and of other serpents, which the inhabitants thereabout do burne vp with straw and with other dry fewel, and so they go to gather their pepper without danger.
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They use wood for their common fewel, though, if I were to live at Boulogne, I would mix it with coal, which this country affords.
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Sometimes we were faine to eate flesh halfe sodden, or almost rawe, and all for want of fewel to seethe it withal: especially when we lay in the fields, or were benighted before we came at our iourneis end: because we could not then conueniently gather together the doung of horses or oxen: for other fewel we found but seldome, except perhaps a few thornes in some places.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Common ores would be here of no great value; for what requires to be separated by fire, must, if it were found, be carried away in its mineral state, here being no fewel for the smelting-house or forge.
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His imagination constantly prepared inflammable fewel for his inflammable senses; but, in order to reconcile his respect for self-denial, fortitude, and those heroic virtues, which a mind like his could not coolly admire, he labours to invert the law of nature, and broaches a doctrine pregnant with mischief and derogatory to the character of supreme wisdom.
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No, I repeat it, the love cherished by such minds, must have grosser fewel!
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Short, indeed, must be the reign of love, when the flame is thus constantly blown up, without its receiving any solid fewel!
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Provisions, Cloathing, fewel, servants for a family, and apply them, with steady Resolution and an aspiring Spirit, to the Prosecution of my studies.
John Adams diary 3, includes commonplace book entries, spring and summer 1759 1961
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