Sentence:  The peanuts or earth-nuts known in North Carolina and the adjoining States as Goober peas, so that during the late Civil War a conscript from the so-called ‘piney woods' of that State was apt to be nick-named a <WSD>Goober</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (nodot=a) "or" '''North Carolinian''', particularly those from the pine forests of the Sandhills region.