Ralph Keyes' Retroterm of the Day: Woodshed

When most homes were heated with burning logs, woodsheds were a common sight outside. Most of these ramshackle outbuildings were far from houses themselves, making them an ideal location for smoking corn silk and touching one’s privates, or someone else’s. It also was where parents beat their children. They were “taken to the woodshed.”

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