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Word entry · 5 letters

birch

Best crossword clue

"White-barked tree"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /bɜːtʃ/Part of speech verb, adjective, nounSorted bchirStarts with BEnds with H1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. whip with a birch twig

Word origin

From Middle English birche, birk, from Old English birċe, bierċe, from Proto-West Germanic *birkijā, from Proto-Germanic *birkijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵos.

Used in a sentence

  • That the morrow would see us arraigned 'fore the Head And probably birched with a willow
  • […] and was tied to a tree and soundly birched with a bundle of furze

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01White-barked tree5 letters

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