2. Noun. A beating with a birch. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Birching
1. birch [v] - See also: birch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Birching
Literary usage of Birching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Through Siberia by Henry Lansdell (1882)
"Women criminals at mines.—A nt* building for expected politicals.—Superannuated
formats.— The hospitals.—" birching" and its effects.—Kara in 1859. ..."
2. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1904)
"I am not quite prepared to ask you to advocate birching of young delinquents in
this country, but I shall sently have a body of evidence to lay before you ..."
3. The Humane Review (1907)
"This society has advocated birching and flogging under the guise of "suitable
punishment" for certain offences. Fifteen years ago it supported a Flogging ..."
4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"To send a person to birching-lane, a proverbial phrase for ordering him to be
whipped, ... Ascham speaks of " a common proverb of birching- lane. ..."
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