Sentence:  A third remarked of slowness of Southerners : `` They moved about from corner to corner , as uneasy as a litter of hungry leaches on the neck of a wooden <WSD>god</WSD> '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force