woodshed

IPA: wˈʊdʃɛd

An enclosed, roofed structure, often an outbuilding, used primarily to store firewood.
(informal) A place where punishments or reprimands are administered.

Examples of "woodshed" in Sentences

a woodshed is a hideously unromantic sort of place.
The end of the woodshed was the limit of their vision down the long yard.
But there are conservatives who believe the woodshed is the last place they should be.
Since last year, Tyondai Braxton has been deep in what jazz musicians would call the woodshed.
I hope she isn't taken to the proverbial "woodshed" for her "journalistic integrity" ... an almost forgotten term.
This is not to say that the General doesn't deserve to be taken, as Ronald Reagan once did to budget director David Stockman, to the White House "woodshed" for his media indiscretions.
Stormy Day at Sugar Creek_, and behind the woodshed was the great big schoolyard where we played baseball and blindman's buff and other games in the fall and spring, and where we play fox-and-goose in the winter.
The woodshed is the leadership of both parties bringing members in who either are not following the party line or feel that they won ` t follow the party line, and putting the pressure on them to get them to do something to accomplish a leadership goal.