| 单词 | birch rod |
| 释义 | birch rod (once / 69937 pages) n WORD FAMILY birch rod: birch rods USAGE EXAMPLESIn those days, prison was designed for punishment and was stocked with its own supply of whipping implements such as cat-o'-nine-tails and birch rods. BBC(Nov 16, 2014) To whip with a birch rod or twig; to flog. Webster, Noah, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary—(2n...(2012) Henry II, stripped naked, and suffering flagellation with birch rods, at the hands of two monks, before the shrine of Thomas à Becket. Macray, William Dunn, Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxf...(2011) n a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment Syn|Hyper birch switch a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment |
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