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birch
[ burch ]
noun
- any tree or shrub of the genus Betula, comprising species with a smooth, laminated outer bark and close-grained wood. Compare birch family.
- the wood itself.
- a birch rod, or a bundle of birch twigs, used especially for whipping.
adjective
verb (used with object)
- to beat or punish with or as if with a birch:
The young ruffians were birched soundly by their teacher.
birch
/ bɜːtʃ /
noun
- any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula, having thin peeling bark See also silver birch
- the hard close-grained wood of any of these trees
- the bircha bundle of birch twigs or a birch rod used, esp formerly, for flogging offenders
adjective
- of, relating to, or belonging to the birch
- consisting or made of birch
verb
- tr to flog with a birch
Derived Forms
- ˈbirchen, adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of birch1
Word History and Origins
Origin of birch1
Example Sentences
I’d been wooed by spring delights—birch saplings rich with new greens, the sighing pines swaying dozens of feet above them.
To my left, through the scratched glass window, I could make out a vast valley below, speckled with birch and aspen trees exploding into vibrant yellows as autumn neared.
Fast-growing birch send nutrients to slower-moving fir trees.
It could be a strip of birch bark or a handful of Doritos—as long as it’s something small, dry, and oily, it should work.
Solid birch wooden legs are dark brown, and a decorative nailhead design is found along the base of the chair.
Bob Dylan even took the Birchers to task in his folk tune “Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues.”
But you do not have a 50-foot birch lying across your driveway.
Wetlands protected under the “Clean Water Act of 1972” are being polluted with birch beer precursor chemicals.
(At the same time, CPAC also banned the John Birch Society from being a sponsor as well).
It was Birch who took Gilbert and George to China, a trip on which Compston was invited, missed the plane, and came along later.
It is well known in Sweden that when a pine forest is felled, a growth, not of pine but of birch, immediately springs up.
By and by, a straggling birch bluff rose blackly across their way, but nobody swung wide.
The walls consisted of trees laid one upon another; and the roof was of birch bark.
In fact, there was not, in all the parish, a more generally unpopular man than Billy Birch.
Billy Birch would not shut up his dog at night, and as for killing him, that was out of the question.
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