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

Inflected Forms

noun

• woodhouses
  plural

Etymology

Origin of woodhouse

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

Example Sentences

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

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 Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

The itemized amount is, horse barn, $2000, forage barn, $3400, granary, $2200, woodhouse, $400, power-house, $550.

From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams

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

"I didn't exactly capture him," replied the blushing lad; "but I shut the door of the woodhouse, and he stayed there till the owners came and took him away."

From Brave Tom The Battle That Won by Ellis, Edward Sylvester