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Bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
Answer for the clue "Bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects ", 10 letters:
peckerwood
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n. (context Southern US slang English) A woodpecker.
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Peckerwood (or simply wood ) is a Southern US slang term for woodpecker . It is used to describe poor rural whites similar to white trash . Originally an ethnic slur , the term has been embraced by a subculture related to prison gangs and outlaw motorcycle ...
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n. bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects [syn: woodpecker , pecker ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1859, U.S. Southern black dialectal inversion of woodpecker ; in folklore, taken as the type of white folks (1929) and symbolically contrasted with blackbird .