Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

peckerwood sawmill

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.50 in modern English

Syllables: peck-er-wood -sawmill
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

4

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

noun

Any small-scale production operation.

Example Sentences

"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"

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

peckerwood sawmills (plural)

Questions

What does peckerwood sawmill mean?: A small-scale sawmill, often with older equipment not capable of producing wood of uniform dimension.
Where does peckerwood sawmill come from?: Apparently coined as a pejorative by the organized lumber-products industry.

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