woodyard

Canada, long known as the granary, is also the "woodyard" of the Empire, and had a wonderful display of pulp and paper covering a thousand square feet.

The British Empire Exhibition, A Study in Geography, Resources, and Citizenship of the British Empire 1924

The forest, which shouldered in upon them from three sides, was an inexhaustible woodyard.

In a Far Country 2010

The forest, which shouldered in upon them from three sides, was an inexhaustible woodyard.

In a Far Country 2010

Bromsgrove police were attempting to establish whether the girl was killed in an old woodyard in the town some time in the 1950s.

Archive 2005-06-01 2005

In addition, women collected firewood — a familiar routine for Irish women, who were used to carrying heavy sacks of peat on their backs, sometimes over long distances, in the home country. 39 Men did more substantial cutting of wood during the winter, bringing their loads home by horse and cart, piling the long poles into wharves of wood until they could be chopped into junks in the woodyard.

Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

And throughout the summer, women went to the woodyard to gather loads of chips in their aprons to light quick fires for small cooking jobs — baking buns, for example, or frying fish.

Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

When a Missouri River steamboat captain tried to bargain for a few cords at a woodyard, the proprietor asked.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

Old Mr. Bergen himself spent much of his time at Hamilton, where he had a woodyard with a couple of rooms attached to it.

Tales of all countries 2004

On leaving the workshop Adam locked the door, took the key out, and carried it to the house on the other side of the woodyard.

Adam Bede 2004

Mr. Poyser insisted that the best plan would be for Seth and his mother to move and leave Adam in the old home, which might be enlarged after a while, for there was plenty of space in the woodyard and garden; but Adam objected to turning his mother out.

Adam Bede 2004