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Definition birch

Etymology

From Middle English birche, birk, from Old English bir?e, bier?e, from Proto-Germanic *birkij? (compare West Frisian bjirk, German Birke), variant of *berk? (compare Dutch berk, Swedish björk, Norwegian bjørk), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erH?os (compare Sanskrit ????? (bh?rjá), Lithuanian béržas, Czech b?íza, Ossetian ???? (bærz), Russian ?????? (berjóza)), Latin fraxinus (“ash tree, ash javelin”)).

Noun

birch (countable and uncountable, plural birches)

1. Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
2. A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.
3. A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
4. A birch-bark canoe.

Verb

birch (third-person singular simple present birches, present participle birching, simple past and past participle birched)

1. to punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
2. to punish as though one were using a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.

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