peckerwood sawmill

noun

A small-scale sawmill, often with older equipment not capable of producing wood of uniform dimension.

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Meanings

nounpeckerwood sawmill (plural peckerwood sawmills)

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 another

    1949, Egon Glesinger, The coming age of wood
  2. Southern USAny small-scale production operation.

Origin

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

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Translations

Finnish piensaha
  • piensahasmall-scale sawmill
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APA

peckerwood sawmill. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/peckerwood%20sawmill

MLA

“peckerwood sawmill.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/peckerwood%20sawmill. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “peckerwood sawmill,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/peckerwood%20sawmill.

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