A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.
A birch-bark canoe.
Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
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.
A wooden implement shaped like a large knife used to separate the valuable fibres of flax or hemp by beating them and scraping from it the woody or coarse portions.
A bricklayer's small picklike tool with two cutting edges (or prongs) for dressing stone or cutting and trimming bricks.
The woody fibre of flax or hemp; the refuse of scutched flax or hemp.
A tuft or clump of grass.
To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.