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Woodshed

Definition: Woodshed

Woodshed

Noun

1. A shed for storing firewood or garden tools.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "woodshed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)


Modern Usage: Woodshed

DomainUsage

Screenplays

We may not have a woodshed on board, but that boy is gonna get a whuppin' anyway! (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Woodshed

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Noise from the Woodshed (reference)

  • Build a Pole Woodshed (reference)

  • Bxc Woodshed Mystery (reference)

  • Delightful Discipline: Humorous Stories of Woodshed Wisdom and Biblical Principles (reference)

  • Foxes in the Woodshed (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Woodshed

Photos:
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Photo Album: Woodshed

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Woodshed, Coos County, New Hampshire. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hired hand on Mr. Dickinson's farm in Lisbon, near Franconia, New Hampshire, putting split logs in woodshed for winter fuel. Credit: Library of Congress.

George Deacon in his woodshed. Oswego County, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

Barn and woodshed in Corbin Hollow. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mother and child in front of woodshed. Gibbs City, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Woodshed on the McNally farm. Kirby, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress.

Williamsburg, Virginia, Ludwell-Paradise. Woodshed. Credit: Library of Congress.

President Calvin Coolidge. Woodshed. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Woodshed

AuthorQuotation

Henry David Thoreau

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Woodshed

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

I have also a small woodshed adjoining, made chiefly of the stuff which was left after building the house.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Woodshed

"Woodshed" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Woodshed" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1397,576

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Woodshed

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bethanys woodshed

78

spankings woodshed

3

woodshed

62

her woodshed

3

trip woodshed

11

in spanked woodshed

3

plan woodshed

9

whipping woodshed

3

the and woodshed and spanking

7

switch whip woodshed

2

kulaks woodshed

7

build woodshed

2

restaurant woodshed

6

punishment woodshed

2

bethany woodshed

6

joes uncle woodshed

2

discipline woodshed

4

old woodshed

2

silvis woodshed

3

studio woodshed

2

slims woodshed

2
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Modern Translations: Woodshed

Language Translations for "woodshed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

plevicë e druve të zjarrit. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

барака за дърва. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

木材的棚. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

هیزم دان , انبارهیزم , انبارالواروچوب . (various references)

   

German

  

Holzschuppen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αποθήκη για καυσόξυλα. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oodshedway

   

Russian 

  

дровяной сарай. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

šupa za drva. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vedskjul. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

odunluk (shed), kömürlük (bin, coal-hole). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

lều chứa củi (wood-house). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Woodshed

Derivations

Words beginning with "woodshed": woodshedded, woodshedding, woodsheds. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Woodshed"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "woodshed" (pronounced wuh"dshe'd)
4-d sh e' dbloodshed.
3-sh e' dwatershed.

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Anagrams: Woodshed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-h-o-o-s-w"

-1 letter: wooshed.

-2 letters: dodoes, dowsed, hooded, shooed, showed, wooded.

-3 letters: dhows, dodos, dosed, dowed, dowse, hoods, hosed, howes, oohed, shoed, sowed, whose, whoso, woods, wooed, woosh.

-4 letters: dews, dhow, dodo, does, dose, dows, eddo, edhs, hews, hods, hoed, hoes, hood, hose, howe, hows, odds, odes, ohed, oohs, owed, owes, owse, shed, shew, shod, shoe, shoo.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-h-o-o-s-w"
 

+1 letter: woodsheds.

 

+3 letters: shadowboxed, woodenheads, woodshedded.

 

+4 letters: foreshadowed, overshadowed, widowerhoods, woodshedding.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Woodshed


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 6F 6F 64 73 68 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01101111 01101111 01100100 01110011 01101000 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#111 &#111 &#100 &#115 &#104 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 006F 006F 0064 0073 0068 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5781817085747170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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