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• n  bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects

• More than a thousand "peckerwood" (portable) sawmills had suddenly appeared and gone into frenzied production.
• The answers lie deep within a politician who fought his way out of a peckerwood background and a backwoods wildernessand never wants to return.
• Alabama's Governor James ("Big Jim") Folsom, the woman-kissin'est chief executive any state ever had, can play peckerwood better than any shoeless redneck out of the back.

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News & Articles

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• Peckerwood Lake: Big and fish-filled
  Let's squelch a rumor here. Jeff Foxworthy, the "'you might be a redneck" fellow, did not name Peckerwood Lake in Arkansas. Industrialist Edgar M. Queeny named it a long time ago. It was his lake. He had it built.
  July 13, 2013 - The Log Cabin Democrat

Quotes

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• Bernhard Goetz in Kansas City Star
  A 1996 story on New York City subway shooter Bernard Goetz quoted court testimony that Goetz had referred to "spics and niggers" (and also that his own lawyer called him "a nerd, a geek, a peckerwood, a cracker").