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peckerwood sawmill

peckerwood sawmill noun: a small-scale sawmill, often with older equipment not capable of producing wood of uniform dimension.

Noun

peckerwood sawmill (plural peckerwood sawmills)

  1. A small-scale sawmill, often with older equipment not capable of producing wood of uniform dimension.
    • The thousands of gasoline-powered "peckerwood" sawmills that scatter wood waste across the landscape, and the big lumber, veneer, and pulp mills that stand in distant isolation from one another1949, Egon Glesinger, The coming age of wood
  2. (Southern US) Any small-scale production operation.

Forms of peckerwood sawmill

pluralpeckerwood sawmills

Origin of peckerwood sawmill

Apparently coined as a pejorative by the organized lumber-products industry.

Questions about peckerwood sawmill

What does peckerwood sawmill mean?
Peckerwood sawmill means a small-scale sawmill, often with older equipment not capable of producing wood of uniform dimension.
What part of speech is peckerwood sawmill?
Peckerwood sawmill is a noun.
What is the plural of peckerwood sawmill?
The plural of peckerwood sawmill is peckerwood sawmills.

Words near peckerwood sawmill in the dictionary

  1. peckerhead
  2. peckerheads
  3. peckerless
  4. peckers
  5. peckerwood
  6. peckerwood sawmill
  7. peckerwood sawmills
  8. peckerwoods
  9. peckes
  10. peckest
  11. pecketh

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