Noun

(en noun)

(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.