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[US] Mt Vernon Signal (KY) 10 Nov. 2/1: Wm. Ray beat the red-headed pecker-wood, Lewis Walker.
at peckerwood, n.
[US] Mt Vernon Signal (KY) 28 June 1/2: As we have been gone for a few days and failed to get all the news for this issue we will give you the whole six yards in our next.
at whole nine yards, n.
[US] Mt Vernon Signal (KY) 16 June 3/5: Pounding sand into a rathole seems an easy task compared with keeping the Culebra free of slides.
at pound sand in a rathole (v.) under pound, v.2
[US] Mt Vernon Signal (KY) 2 Nov. 4/3: It shall be unlawful to pick up [...] steal, seize, [...] pilfer, purloin [...] crib, cabbage [...] another man’s umbrella.
at cabbage, v.1
[US] Mt Vernon Signal (KY) 2 Nov. 4/3: It shall be unlawful to pick up [...] steal, seize, [...] pilfer, purloin [...] crib, cabbage [...] another man’s umbrella.
at crib, v.1
[US] Mt Vernon Signal (KY) 30 Mar. 4/1: The Peckerwood-Jaybird War in Fort Bend County Texas [...] the two factions were called the Jay Birds [i.e. blacks] and Peckerwoods [i.e. whites].
at jaybird, n.1
[US] Mt Vernon Signal (KY) 30 Mar. 4/1: The Peckerwood-Jaybird War in Fort Bend County Texas [...] the two factions were called the Jay Birds [i.e. blacks] and Peckerwoods [i.e. whites].
at peckerwood, n.
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