woodshed
Logs kept here
A woodshed is a small outbuilding for storing firewood.
The verb woodshed, from jazz slang, means to practice an instrument intensively in private—as if retreating to a shed to work on your chops away from others: He woodshedded for months before the audition.
To take someone to the woodshed is to reprimand or punish them severely, from the old practice of administering discipline out of public view.
Detached auxiliary structure
firewood · kindling · splitting · axe · maul · stacking · cordwood · seasoning
Cut logs for burning
- cordwoodWood sold by volume
- kindlingMaterial for starting fires
- stackingPlacing items vertically
- seasonedFlavored or battle-tested
split · logs · fuel · winter · supply · stockpile · provisions · dry
Pre-performance practice session
- practiceRepeated work toward mastery
- scalesPlates or weighing devices
- improvisationSpontaneous, unplanned creation
- techniqueSkilled way of performing
jazz · musician · solitary · repetition · drills · honing · preparation · private
Penalty for an offense
- beatingRepeated striking or pulsing
- whippingRepeated striking blows
- spankingStriking the buttocks
- correctionFixing of mistakes
scolding · reprimand · consequences · reckoning · chastisement · lecture · accountability · admonishment
outbuilding
Detached auxiliary structure
logs · firewood · kindling · splitting · axe · maul · stacking · cordwood · seasoning · drying
firewood
Cut logs for burning
seasoned · split · logs · fuel · winter · supply · stockpile · provisions · dry · covered
rehearsal
Pre-performance practice session
- practiceRepeated work toward mastery
- scalesPlates or weighing devices
- improvisationSpontaneous, unplanned creation
technique · jazz · musician · solitary · repetition · drills · honing · preparation · private · unpolished
punishment
Penalty for an offense
correction · scolding · reprimand · consequences · reckoning · chastisement · lecture · accountability · admonishment
secluded
Set apart, private
solitude · getaway · escape · refuge · sanctuary · peaceful · remote · undisturbed · tucked-away · simple
- firewood storagewoodpile, log rack, log pile, log holder, log basket
- storagedrive, silos, bins, tanks, storehouse
- farm structuresbarn, barn door, silo, chicken coop, hay barn
- farmsteadfarmhouse, barn cat, farm cat, farm dog, farmyard
- outbuildingssheds, toolshed, outhouse, outbuilding, greenhouse
- shedstoolshed
woodshedpalace
Monarch's official residence
cathedral · castle · main house · mansion · great hall
- trip to the woodshedPrivate harsh reprimand