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plural woodsheds
An enclosed, roofed structure, often an outbuilding, used primarily to store firewood. examples
(informal) A place where punishments or reprimands are administered. quotations examples
The State Department is incensed, and if this conference fails it will be the woodshed for three Central American presidents.
1907 November 11, “Latin President’s Plot May Disarrange the Central American Peace Plans”, in New York Times
Were you ever taken to the woodshed? Did anyone say, “Stop disagreeing with the president”?
2021 January 24, Donald G. McNeil Jr, “Fauci on What Working for Trump Was Really Like”, in The New York Times
third-person singular simple present woodsheds, present participle woodshedding, simple past and past participle woodshedded
(slang, music) To practice or rehearse using a musical instrument. quotations
His latest novel sheds light on an émigré writer’s woodshedding period.
2007 July 23, “A Free Life”, in Publishers Weekly