birch

Adjective

• consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree

Noun

• 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 betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark

• hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood

Verb

• whip with a birch twig

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  birchen , birken , birch rod , birch tree