Birch (Verb)
Meaning
Whip with a birch twig.
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- They discovered that she had birched him until he could no longer cry.
- In this school, corporal punishment was meted out by birching the boys on their buttocks.
- As the authorities had instructed, the master birched the children to discipline them.
- Some kids alleged that the cruel headmaster birched everyone involved in the chaos.
- These officers used to birch anyone who broke camp rules without permission.