Citations:peckerwood

English citations of peckerwood

woodpecker

• 1900 January 15, T. P. Drowne, “A Trip to Fauquier Co., Virginia; With Notes on the Specimens Obtained.”, in Walter F. Webb, editor, The Museum: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Research in Natural Science, volume 6, number 3, Albion, page 38:

  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.

• 1953, Jesse Stuart, The Good Spirit of Laurel Ridge‎^[1], New York: McGraw-Hill, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL:

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

• 1992, Robert Morgan, The Mountains Won't Remember Us: And Other Stories, New York: Scribner, published 2000, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 40:

  There was nothing but a peckerwood on an oak tree.

peckerwood sawmill

• 1933 January 7, Traffic Service Corporation, “Serving an essential Industry: Lumber”, in The Traffic World‎^[2], volume 51, number 1, page 8:

  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.

• 2002, John E. Lancaster, Judge Harley and His Boys: The Langdale Story, 1st edition, Macon: Mercer University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 222:

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

redneck

• 1946, Mezz Mezzrow with Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, New York: Kensington, published 2001, →ISBN, →OL, page 16:

  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.

• 1967, John Oliver Killens, 'Sippi‎^[3], New York: Trident Press, →LCCN, →OL, page 50:

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

• 2005 November 7, Joycelyn M. Pollock, Prisons: Today and Tomorrow, Sudbury: Jones and Bartlett, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 96:

  Wood: A white convict derived from "peckerwood."