[HOUSE sb.1 3.] A house, shed or room in which wood is stored.

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[1274.  Close Roll 2 Edw. I., m. 10. De wodehusis videlicet Johanne Heruy pro quatuor acris & dimidis terre quatuor solid.]

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1356–7.  Abingdon Rolls (Camden), 13. In … emendacione ostij de le Wodehous, v s. viij d.

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c. 1450.  Godstow Reg., 318. In the which mese is I-conteyned:—j halle, with ij. celers; j kechyn,… j doffe hous; j wodehous.

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1570.  Levins, Manip., 225/16. A Wodhouse, lignarium.

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1674.  T. Flatman, Poems, To Mr. Austin, 14. Thus a black velvet Casket hides a Jewel; And a dark woodhouse, wholesome winter fuel.

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a. 1721.  Prior, Dial. Locke & Montaigne, Wks. 1907, II. 243. To the Coal hole or woodhouse?

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1833.  Loudon, Encycl. Cottage Archit., § 721. The Coal-house and the Wood-house should always be adjoining the kitchen.

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1856.  Miss Yonge, Daisy Chain, I. viii. They claimed him for a good game at play in the wood-house.

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