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Birch rod   /bərtʃ rɑd/   Listen
Birch rod

noun
1.
A switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment.  Synonym: birch.





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"Birch rod" Quotes from Famous Books



... for the dark room is not bad enough for this naughty little girl. She must be whipped, and you must do it. Fetch the birch rod." ...
— A Little Mother to the Others • L. T. Meade
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... Prince declared, "manifestly deranged." In 1872 Arthur O'Connor, a youth of seventeen, fired an unloaded pistol at the Queen outside Buckingham Palace; he was immediately seized by John Brown, and sentenced to one year's imprisonment and twenty strokes of the birch rod. It was for his bravery upon this occasion that Brown was presented with one of his gold medals. In all these cases the jury had refused to allow the plea of insanity; but Roderick Maclean's attempt in 1882 had a ...
— Queen Victoria • Lytton Strachey
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... seemed very disagreeable to our friend Daffydowndilly. The whole day long, this terrible old schoolmaster sat at his desk overlooking the scholars, or stalked about the school-room with a certain awful birch rod in his hand. Now came a rap over the shoulders of a boy whom Mr. Toil had caught at play; now he punished a whole class who were behindhand with their lessons; and, in short, unless a lad chose to attend quietly and constantly to his book, ...
— Little Daffydowndilly - (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") • Nathaniel Hawthorne
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... others had gone home, the master took down his long birch rod and said: "Elihu, I suppose I must be as good as my word. But tell me why you so deliberately broke ...
— Fifty Famous People • James Baldwin
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Words linked to "Birch rod" :   switch, birch


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