fueling

English

Verb

fueling

1. present participle of fuel

Noun

fueling (plural fuelings)

1. The act or process by which something is fueled.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.