stickshed
stickshed noun: a shed for firewood in the form of sticks.
Noun
stickshed (plural sticksheds)
- A shed for firewood in the form of sticks.
- Coal, coke and sticks were needed, and boys would be designated alley and stickshed boys. Kindling wood logs were provided and those had to be chopped into sticks.1984, York Memories: Nine First-Hand Accounts of Life in York 1900-1939, York: York Oral History Project, →OCLC, page 30
- My parents sent the foreman, Bill Taylor, down to Newburgh with a load of sticks for the Duncans’ fire. When he arrived the old man told Bill just to coup them in the street and he would take them round to the stickshed at the foot of the garden at the back.2008, Charlie Allan, “Joe Duncan”, in The Truth Tells Twice: The Life of a North-east Farm, Edinburgh: Birlinn, →ISBN, page 117
Forms of stickshed
| plural | sticksheds |
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Origin of stickshed
From stick + shed.
Questions about stickshed
- What does stickshed mean?
- Stickshed means a shed for firewood in the form of sticks.
- What part of speech is stickshed?
- Stickshed is a noun.
- What is the plural of stickshed?
- The plural of stickshed is sticksheds.
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