peckerwood

noun4

1. •
   (Southern-US, slang) A woodpecker.

   • When I was a boy, I rooted over an old dead sourwood to get some peckerwood eggs. — 1953
2. •
   (slang, offensive) A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.

   • Just as prejudiced as a Mississippi peckerwood when it comes to colored people. — 1967
3. •
   (slang) A white (male) inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.
4. •
   (Southern-US, Appalachia) A peckerwood sawmill.

   • The Langdale Company's new centralized sawmill and debarker in 1958 constituted a tremendous advance over the old peckerwood technology. — 2002