birch

Plural: birches

Noun

• 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
• a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment
  • "my father never spared the birch"
• Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
• A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.
• A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
• A birch-bark canoe.

Verb

Verb Forms: birched, birching, birches

• To punish by whipping with a birch rod.
• whip with a birch twig
• To punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
• To punish as though one were using a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.

Adjective Satellite

• consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree

Examples

• His opponent threatened to birch him if he kept playing obscure words for high scores.

Synonyms

birch rod, birch tree, birchen, birken, makepeace, switch

Anagrams of birch