woodhouse

American  

[wood-hous] / ˈwʊdˌhaʊs /

noun

woodhouses plural

1. a house or shed in which wood is stored.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• woodhouses
  plural

Etymology

Origin of woodhouse

Middle English word dating back to 1225–75; see origin at wood ¹, house

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

woodhouse woodhouses

I took the wooden shovel that I had carved from the board and dug around what I thought must have been the back door or possibly the woodhouse.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Both this cottage, and all the other plans, require a woodhouse, and the conveniences connected with it, which are represented in Fig.

From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther

After breakfast, Jake and Douglas went out into the woodhouse to grind a scythe and a cutter-bar.

From The Unknown Wrestler by Cody, H. A. (Hiram Alfred)

There was scarcely a retired place in the garden, in the woodhouse, in the carriage-house, or in the barn that was not a scene of my crying and praying.

From Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers by Dickinson, Asa Don

But while they talked a great scuffling and squawking in the woodhouse attracted the boys upstairs.

From Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know by Dickinson, Asa Don

Well de first year I slept in folkses woodhouses an' barns an' in de woods or any whar else I could find.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by Various

"Who is this Jerry who coils in woodhouses?" said Halbert.

From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Kingsley, Henry