birch
burch
- n hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood
- n any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark
- n 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 - v whip with a birch twig
- s consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree
- Watching her classmates dutifully undertake their assignment by emoting oak, willow and birch, Zhang stood rooted to the groundbut in a distinctly untreelike fashion.
- This may explain why there is so little visible security at Putin's dacha, Novo-Ogarevo, the grand Russian presidential retreat set inside a birch- and fir-forested compound west .
- Awash with self-doubt, he heaves the birch chunks out to lighten the truck, then jacks, wedges, winches and ponders.