stickshed

From stick +‎ shed.

stickshed (plural sticksheds)

1. A shed for firewood in the form of sticks.
   • 1984, York Memories: Nine First-Hand Accounts of Life in York 1900-1939, York: York Oral History Project, →OCLC, page 30:

     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.

   • 2008, Charlie Allan, “Joe Duncan”, in The Truth Tells Twice: The Life of a North-east Farm, Edinburgh: Birlinn, →ISBN, page 117:

     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.

   • 2011, Kirsteen Scott, “Cracks”, in Alan Bissett, Carl MacDougall, editors, The Flight of the Turtle (New Writing Scotland; 29), Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, →ISBN, page 170:

     I have been attuned to cracks // the slit in the bark of the old chestnut tree / where the wee folk lived // the split in the stickshed door / where I watched the world beyond // […]