woodshed

From wood +‎ shed.

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woodshed (plural woodsheds)

1. An enclosed, roofed structure, often an outbuilding, used primarily to store firewood.
2. (informal) A place where punishments or reprimands are administered.
   • 1907 November 11, “Latin President’s Plot May Disarrange the Central American Peace Plans”, in New York Times:

     The State Department is incensed, and if this conference fails it will be the woodshed for three Central American presidents.

   • 2021 January 24, Donald G. McNeil Jr, “Fauci on What Working for Trump Was Really Like”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Were you ever taken to the woodshed? Did anyone say, “Stop disagreeing with the president”?

woodshed (third-person singular simple present woodsheds, present participle woodshedding, simple past and past participle woodshedded)

1. (slang, music) To practice or rehearse using a musical instrument.
   • 2007 July 23, “A Free Life”, in Publishers Weekly:

     His latest novel sheds light on an émigré writer’s woodshedding period.

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