woodhouse

Definitions

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

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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