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7 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
When I was a boy, I rooted over an old dead sourwood to get some peckerwood eggs.
Source: wiktionary
There was nothing but a peckerwood on an oak tree.
Source: wiktionary
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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Closest matches include woodpecker, epithet, insult, pecker, slur.
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