woodhouse

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1. TexasA house or shed for storing (chopped) wood

   Now this door, which had been left ajar by Polly when she ran off, opened into a little courtyard where the fowls were shut in at night; the woodhouse and the privy also stood there.

   1922, David Garnett, Lady Into Fox

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   The ceiling is covered with paintings of scriptural subjects, which still remain, notwithstanding that the building is now desecrated, and used as a woodhouse by the neighboring farmer.

   1820, Dawson Turner, Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. I. (of 2)

   I felt awfully poor, and a stranger, and this was a beginning for me at any rate, so I went to work with a will and never lost a minute of daylight till I had split up all the wood and filled his woodhouse completely up.

   1894, William Lewis Manly, Death Valley in '49

alternative Wodehouse

1. A surname.
2. Various places in the United Kingdom:
   1. A southern suburb of Whitehaven, Copeland borough, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NX9716).
   2. A village and civil parish in Charnwood borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5415).
   3. A suburban village and ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4284).
3. A locality in the Shire of Southern Grampians, south western Victoria, Australia