单词 | birchen |
释义 | birchenadj. Of, pertaining to, or composed of birch; of or pertaining to the birch used in flogging. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > birch and allies > [adjective] birchen1481 society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [adjective] > relating to birch or rod birchen1481 baculine1710 betuline1873 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 40 Two birchen trees. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. aii Birkin bewis about boggis and wellis. 1536 W. Tyndale Wks. (1573) 166 We say of a wanton child..he must be annoynted with byrchin salve. 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie iii. 19 Our maide with hir birchin broome. 1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle iv. sig. I2v And now the Burchin Tree doth bud that maks the Schoole boy cry. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. v. xi. 208 Unless you had the same Birchen Argument to convince me. View more context for this quotation 1808 J. Mayne Siller Gun (new ed.) i. 28 (Jam.) Birken chaplets not a few And yellow broom. 1833 Fraser's Mag. 7 137 Boyhood sheds its flood of birchen tears. 1865 F. Parkman Champlain ix, in Pioneers of France in New World 300 Canoe-men, in their birchen vessels. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1481 |
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