woodshed
/ˈwʊdʃɛd
/noun
A shed where wood for fuel is stored.Feeling inadequate, Marc offered to go the woodshed and restore the wood pile beside the fireplace....
- During the day my sister and I would play in the tall grasses, or watch grandpa building something in his woodshed.
- Completing the arrangement of domestic buildings is the woodshed, a building that was vital for the fires that both warmed the house and cooked the food.
verb [no object] (usually as noun woodshedding) informal
1(Of a musician) practise in private.The trivia point about that is, he ‘woodshedded’ that song....
- Who's going to bother with a couple of years of guitar lessons and woodshedding if he can go to a store and grab a couple of turntables for less than the price of a nice tweed guitar case nowadays?
- You get a taste of the frustration, the liquor laced woodshedding, the comfort Wilco had with it's finished product and the confusing world of audio technology.
1.1Improvise or harmonize spontaneously.
Phrases
something nasty in the woodshed
take someone to the woodshed