fuel
noun
combustible matter used to maintain fire, as coal, wood, oil, or gas, in order to create heat or power.
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I pray thee, see the fueller Suffer the cook to want no wood.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt