1. birch - Noun
2. birch - Adjective
3. birch - Verb
4. birch - Adjective Satellite
5. Birch - Proper noun
A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta).
The wood or timber of the birch.
A birch twig or birch twigs, used for flogging.
Of or pertaining to the birch; birchen.
To whip with a birch rod or twig; to flog.
Source: Webster's dictionaryCriticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders. Arthur Symons
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. Paul Muldoon
Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties. Samuel Johnson
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. George Eliot
This is the song for Baby Birch. I will never know you. And at the back of what we've done, there is that knowledge of you. Joanna Newsom
Sauna without birch switch is like a wedding without bride. Finnish Proverb