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Meaning of peckerwood sawmill | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A small-scale sawmill, often with older equipment not capable of producing wood of uniform dimension.
  2. Any small-scale production operation.
    Southern-US

Equivalents

Suomi piensaha

Examples

“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”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Peckett peckful Peckham Peckham Rye Peckhamite peckhorn

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