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Birch
bəːtʃ
Birch definitions
noun
birch
birches
birchwood
- a slender hardy tree which has thin peeling bark and bears catkins. Birch trees grow chiefly in northern temperate regions and yield hard, pale, fine-grained timber
- the hard fine-grained pale wood of birch trees
- a formal punishment in which a person is flogged with a bundle of birch twigs
"there were calls to bring back the birch"
verb
birch
birched
birches
birching
- beat (someone) with a bundle of birch twigs as a formal punishment
"the school would attempt to birch them into submission"