peckerwood

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A woodpecker.

   “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.”

2. isim A peckerwood sawmill.

   “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.”

3. isim A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.

   “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.”

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