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- verb Present participle of
woodshed .
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Examples
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KAHN: In the music world, it's called woodshedding - the time a musician spends away from performing, finding, and perfecting his sound.
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KAHN: In the music world, it's called woodshedding - the time a musician spends away from performing, finding, and perfecting his sound.
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It might require taking classes or it might require just "woodshedding" for a while
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Balfa's husband, Dirk Powell, another local expert, says she is currently "woodshedding" for her upcoming year-long world tour.
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So, we had been woodshedding, and our wood-shedding had a lot to do with just traveling all over the country, playing music, and picking up music.
Mike Ragogna: How To Become Clairvoyant: A Conversation with Robbie Robertson Mike Ragogna 2011
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So, we had been woodshedding, and our wood-shedding had a lot to do with just traveling all over the country, playing music, and picking up music.
Mike Ragogna: How To Become Clairvoyant: A Conversation with Robbie Robertson Mike Ragogna 2011
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I was hanging out in The Village at that time and woodshedding on the guitar and meeting people.
Mike Ragogna: The Return of the Blues Wanderer: A Conversation With Dion, Plus Anthony Green's Beautiful Things Album Streamer Mike Ragogna 2012
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It's unusual for a band that's still woodshedding material for its first album to fill a club the size of the Black Cat.
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It's unusual for a band that's still woodshedding material for its first album to fill a club the size of the Black Cat.
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They also, evidently, spent a lot of woodshedding to bootleg Hendrix and Led Zeppelin cassettes.
chained_bear commented on the word woodshedding
I know this phenomenon, but never heard it called by this name.
"The meeting was designed to discover the truth before the official inquiry started—either that, or else it was meant to make sure that everyone got his story straight before the judge advocate took a crack at the case. Trial lawyers call it 'woodshedding.' If trials were designed purely to get to the truth, then witnesses could just tell their stories and answer whatever questions were put to them. But neither party to a trial is normally interested in the truth. Instead, each party is more concerned with winning. And with such an agenda and a capable courtroom lawyer, the truth often suffers a mauling. To prepare for a ruthless cross-examination, then, an attorney will take witnesses out to the woodshed for a little heart-to-heart talk, a lesson in how to answer the other side's questions ... without violating, of course, the witness's oath to tell the truth.
"Woodshedding is a commonplace practice in any big case. An attorney might even be failing in his duties if he doesn't woodshed his clients...."
—Buckner F. Melton, Jr., A Hanging Offense: The Strange Affair of the Warship Somers (New York and London: Free Press, 2003), 174–175.
April 26, 2009
seanahan commented on the word woodshedding
This is kind of weird, because taking someone to the woodshed has quite a different connotation than this term.
April 26, 2009
rolig commented on the word woodshedding
I agree, seanahan, but I can't remember whether taking someone out to the woodshed has to do with sex or punishment (maybe both for some). Can you enlighten me?
April 26, 2009
seanahan commented on the word woodshedding
Punishment generally, unless you're into sadomasochism.
April 27, 2009
tbtabby commented on the word woodshedding
Also used to describe marking up a script to add pauses and inflections. One slash for a pause, two for a long pause, and an underline for emphasis. It's called "woodshedding" because the slashes are thought to resemble axe marks.
March 5, 2018