Peckerwood vs. Wood

A woodpecker.

(Southern US) A peckerwood sawmill.

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

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

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

a white person, especially a poor one

Example: ‘another peckerwood with a bad attitude’; ‘peckerwood territory’;

Peckerwood is a term used in the Southern United States for a woodpecker which is also used as an offensive epithet toward white people, especially poor rural whites. Originally an ethnic slur, the term has been embraced by a subculture related to prison gangs and outlaw motorcycle clubs.

(uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.

Example: ‘This table is made of wood.’; ‘There was lots of wood on the beach.’;

(countable) The wood of a particular species of tree.

Example: ‘Teak is much used for outdoor benches, but a number of other woods are also suitable, such as ipé, redwood, etc.’;

(countable) A forested or wooded area.

Example: ‘He got lost in the woods beyond Seattle.’;

Firewood.

Example: ‘We need more wood for the fire.’;

A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.

(music) A woodwind instrument.

An erection of the penis.

Example: ‘That girl at the strip club gave me wood.’;

Chess pieces.

A peckerwood.

(transitive) To cover or plant with trees.

To hide behind trees.

(transitive) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.

Example: ‘to wood a steamboat or a locomotive’;

(intransitive) To take or get a supply of wood.

(obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.

Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

Example: ‘Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood.’;

To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.

To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.

To take or get a supply of wood.

A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; - frequently used in the plural.

Example: ‘Light thickens, and the crowMakes wing to the rooky wood.’;

The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber.

The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain.

Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.

Example: ‘We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering.’;

the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

United States film actress (1938-1981)

English conductor (1869-1944)

English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)

United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)

any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head; metal woods are now available

the hard fibrous material that forms the main substance of the trunk or branches of a tree or shrub, used for fuel or timber

Example: ‘a block of wood’; ‘best quality woods were used for joinery’;

wooden barrels used for storing alcoholic drinks

Example: ‘wines from the wood’;

a golf club with a wooden or other head that is relatively broad from face to back (often with a numeral indicating the degree to which the face is angled to loft the ball)

Example: ‘he hit the ball with a three-wood’;

a shot made with a wood

Example: ‘he's hitting a wood for his second shot’;

another term for bowl (sense 1 of the noun)

an area of land, smaller than a forest, that is covered with growing trees

Example: ‘a thick hedge divided the wood from the field’; ‘a long walk in the woods’;

Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic material – a natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin that resists compression.