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Birch

noun

(pl. birches)

Hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood.

Any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark. Synonym: birch tree.

A switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment. Synonym: birch rod.

verb

(past & past part. birched; pres. part. birching)

Whip with a birch twig.

adjective

Consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree. Synonyms: birchen, birken.

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... sheep-track in and out among the huge stones which had fallen from the sides of the great gully. Now they were in deep shadow, where brilliant speckled fungi, all white and red, stood out like stools beneath the birch trees; then they were high up on quite a shelf, where the turf and moss were short, and the sun shone out clearly; and ever, as they turned angle after angle of the great zigzag, the roar of the water grew louder, till, after another hour's slow ...

— Three Boys - or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai • George Manville Fenn

... dense and silent wilderness, threaded with a few Indian trails. Along the shore several rude wigwams were scattered, the smoke curling from their fires from among the trees, with naked children playing around the birch canoes upon the beach. ...

— King Philip - Makers of History • John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

... distance, the corresponding chasm of the Hrafna Gja cut across the lower slope of the distant hills, and between them now slept in beauty and sunshine the broad verdant [Footnote: The plain of Thingvalla is in a great measure clothed with birch ...

— Letters From High Latitudes • The Marquess of Dufferin (Lord Dufferin)

... tell them these words for they had never heard of birch, or of yew. "'I wonder if ...

— What Two Children Did • Charlotte E. Chittenden

... trade maple-sugar in abundance, considerable quantities of both Indian corn and petit-ble,[1] beans and the folles avoines,[2] or wild rice; while the squaws added to their quota of merchandise a contribution in the form of moccasins, hunting-pouches, mococks, or little boxes of birch-bark embroidered with porcupine-quills and filled with maple-sugar, mats of a neat and durable fabric, and toy-models of Indian ...

— Wau-bun - The Early Day in the Northwest • Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie

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