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Birk   Listen
noun
Birk  n.  (Zool.) A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus).






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"Birk" Quotes from Famous Books



... his service at the kirk, He paters heard and aves From choirs that lurk in hedge and birk, From blackbird and from mavis; The cowering mouse, poor unroofed thing, In him found Mercy's angel; The daisy's ring brought every spring To ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

... the anther'd buck before Their deep-mouthed yells to Ottawa's shore. He was a sportsman keen and true, Who dearly loved the "view halloo!" And Graves, who near the old Scotch Kirk Dwelt 'neath the shadow of the "birk;" And Isaac Cluff appears in view, A loyalist, both staunch and true; James "Kennedy, the carter," too, Who the first truck through Bytown drew With the assistance of a horse, I mean, to be exact, of course. And "old Ben. ...
— Recollections of Bytown and Its Old Inhabitants • William Pittman Lett



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