birk

American  

[burk, birk] / bɜrk, bɪrk /

noun

Scot. and North England.

1. birch.

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birk British  

/ bɪrk, bɜːk /

noun

1. a birch tree

2. (plural) a birch wood

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adjective

1. consisting or made of birch

Etymology

Origin of birk

before 900; Middle English byrk, Old English birc, by-form of birce birch

Example Sentences

He describes the rain "spattering on crumbelt conkreat and bustit birk and durdling in the puddls gurgling down the runnels of the dead town."

From Time Magazine Archive

See! how they flash and play As the rivulet does 'neath the rowan and birk; 'Tis a glance in which there's loving a-lurk; A glance that only is born on the brae.

From The Dales of Arcady by Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una

He's as bare as the birk at Yule.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

"For when your ring turns pale and wan, With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan;30 Then I'm in love with another man, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various

It is half-way up a clint of high rocks overlooking Loch Macaterick, and the hillside is bosky all about with bushes, both birk and self-sown mountain ash.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)