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(Southern US, slang) A woodpecker.

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, date = 1900-01-15 , title = A Trip to Fauquier Co., Virginia; With Notes on the Specimens Obtained. , first = T. P. , last = Drowne , journal = The Museum: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Research in Natural Science , editor = Webb, Walter F. , location = Albion , volume = 6 , issue = 3 , page = 38 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=ZsXRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA224&dq=peckerwood , passage = On the morning of the next, one of Mr. White's daughters came into the house to inform me that there was a "peckerwood " in a tree in the yard. I immediately took my gun and went out to investigate thinking that perhaps it was a Pileolated Woodpecker, a bird I wanted to obtain. }}

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, year = 1953 , title = The Good Spirit of Laurel Ridge , first = Jesse , last = Stuart , publisher = McGraw-Hill , location = New York , ol = 6136729M , lccn = 53010630 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=ljpKAAAAMAAJ&dq=peckerwood , passage = When I was a boy, I rooted over an old dead sourwood to get some peckerwood eggs. }}

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, year = 1992 , year_published = 2000 , title = The Mountains Won't Remember Us: And Other Stories , first = Robert , last = Morgan , publisher = Scribner , location = New York , ol = 6783044M , isbn = 9780743204217 , page = 40 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=HGXHWH_BHSIC&pg=PA40&dq=peckerwood , passage = There was nothing but a peckerwood on an oak tree. }}

(Southern US) A peckerwood sawmill.

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, date = 1933-01-07 , title = Serving an essential Industry: Lumber , journal = The Traffic World , volume = 51 , issue = 1 , author = Traffic Service Corporation , page = 8 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=dU9DAQAAIAAJ&dq=peckerwood , passage = Throughout this territory are mills of every variety and size, from the small "peckerwood " tractor mill capable of cutting only a few thousand feet of lumber per day to the world's largest pine lumber mill with a capacity of more than one million feet per day. }}

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, year = 2002 , title = Judge Harley and His Boys: The Langdale Story , first = John E. , last = Lancaster , publisher = Mercer University Press , location = Macon , isbn = 9780865548237 , ol = 8317650M , edition = First , page = 222 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=IO02VExuINMC&pg=PA222&dq=peckerwood , passage = The Langdale Company's new centralized sawmill and debarker in 1958 constituted a tremendous advance over the old peckerwood technology. }}

(US, offensive, slang) A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.

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, year = 1946 , first = Mezz , last = Mezzrow , coauthors = Wolfe, Bernard , title = Really the Blues , publisher = Kensington , location = New York , year_published = 2001 , isbn = 9780806512051 , ol = 7941497M , page = 16 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=V_qO1Foszj8C&pg=PA16&dq=peckerwoods , passage = All the time I was stretched out on the infirmary cot I kept looking at the blank walls and seeing the mean, murdering faces of those Southern peckerwoods when they went after Big Six and the others with their knives. }}

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, year = 1967 , title = 'Sippi , first = John Oliver , last = Killens , page = 50 , publisher = Trident Press , location = New York , lccn = 67016400 , ol = 5539087M , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=HKxiAAAAMAAJ&q=peckerwood , passage = Just as prejudiced as a Mississippi peckerwood when it comes to colored people. }}

A white (male) inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.

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(slang, pejorative) An uneducated, unsophisticated, or poor caucasian person, typically used to describe residents (of any gender Country Music Lyrics New Country Tunes) of the rural Southern US.

(slang) The nickname given to miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921. West Virginia Division of Culture and History

(UK, archaic) The nickname given to Roman Catholics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.