Wood-spell²

U.S. [f. WOOD sb.¹ + SPELL sb.³ 2.] A spell or turn of work at piling or storing wood for fuel.

1864.  Webster, Spell … 2. A gratuitous helping forward of another’s work; as, a wood-spell. (U.S.)

1869.  Mrs. Stowe, Oldtown Folks, xxxvii. It was in the winter of this next year that the minister’s ‘wood-spell’ was announced…. There was a certain day set apart in the winter,… when every parishioner brought the minister a sled-load of wood. Ibid. (1878), Poganuc P., ii. 12. The great wood-pile in the back yard, where, at the yearly ‘wood-spell,’ the farmers deposited the fuel needed for the long … winters.