woodhouse

American  

[wood-haus] / 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

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Etymology

Origin of woodhouse

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

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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

They wuz goin' to be mortified to death by the idee if carried out and they told me in confidence and the woodhouse kitchen, "It must be stopped!"

From Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley

They had stolen out the back way through the top of the post-office fields, and had left Scamp still prisoner in the woodhouse, lest the hysterical joy of his release should disturb the ladies.

From Pearl of Pearl Island by John Oxenham

The trees are 'blazed' in the autumn just before the fall of the leaf, felled later, cut into four-foot lengths, and, as soon as the friendly snow makes sledging possible, drawn down to the woodhouse.

From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Rudyard Kipling

Doña Pomposa hid him in her woodhouse until midnight, when he stole away and was never seen near San Luis again.

From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

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 Henry Kingsley

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