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.

When I was a boy, I rooted over an old dead sourwood to get some peckerwood eggs.

There was nothing but a peckerwood on an oak tree.

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.

The Langdale Company's new centralized sawmill and debarker in 1958 constituted a tremendous advance over the old peckerwood technology.

Just as prejudiced as a Mississippi peckerwood when it comes to colored people.

Peckerwood

Meaning

Noun