birches
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birches, plural;
/bərCH/,
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birches, plural;
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Beat (someone) with a bundle of birch twigs as a formal punishment
Noun
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A slender, fast-growing tree that has thin bark (often peeling) and bears catkins. Birch trees grow chiefly in north temperate regions, some reaching the northern limit of tree growth
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The hard fine-grained pale wood of any of these trees
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A formal punishment in which a person is flogged with a bundle of birch twigs
Web Definitions:
- Birch is the name of a certain tree of the genus Betula (Bé-tu-la), in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae.
- The Birches in Belgrade Lakes, Maine was built in 1916. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
- The Birches is a house at the southeast corner of the junction of NY 9D and 403 in the hamlet of Garrison, New York, United States. It was built for William Osborn, as part of his nearby Wing & Wing estate, by architect Ralph Adams Cram in the Gothic Revival architectural style.
- Birching is a corporal punishment with a birch rod, typically applied to the recipient's bare buttocks, although occasionally to the back and/or shoulders.