wood burner

English

A wood-burning locomotive or wood burner, of the Texas and St. Louis Railway, also known as the Cotton Belt Route

Noun

wood burner (plural wood burners)

1. (UK) A heater or stove that burns wood for fuel.
2. (rail transport, chiefly historical) A steam locomotive fuelled with wood instead of coal or oil, mainly used in areas with a plentiful supply of wood.
   • 1962 June, “Beyond the Channel: Finland: The V.R in their centenary year”, in Modern Railways, page 418:

     A considerable number of engines are wood-burners, although with ample supplies of soft coal from Russia, the adherence to wood-burning may be nothing more than a form of Government subsidy to the timber trade.

Alternative forms

• wood-burner

Related terms

• wood-burning, woodburning

References

• “wood burner”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• unborrowed