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To: SiouxPal who wrote (182329)	12/9/2009 8:35:50 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362360

It sure is. Firewood deserves an apology. There are many words used to describe firewood: billet, bavins, many forms of faggots, blocks, stackwood, cordwood and roots. Bavins are faggots of a specific size, i.e. 3 feet long and 24 inches in circumference as laid down in a Statute of 1542(3). Seven hundred bavins were taken from Chalkwood in 1808: 'paid Tappern for cutting and making 1200 bavins at 4s. 6d per 100'(4). Faggot seems to have been applied to any size of bundle of twiggy wood, for example: 1850: sold 1350 scraging (sic) faggots at £1 per 100, £13.10s; 1871: making 600 felling faggots at 4s per 100, £ 1.16s.8d; 1841: paid for making 90 hedge faggots(5), 4s.6d; 1827: 2350 gleaning faggots, £11.15s. soagarch.org.uk