birch

birch has 11 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta).
• n.. The wood or timber of the birch.
• n.. A birch twig or birch twigs, used for flogging.
• n.. A birch-bark canoe.
• a.. Of or pertaining to the birch; birchen.
• v. t.. To whip with a birch rod or twig; to flog.
• n.. a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment; "my father never spared the birch"
• n.. any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark
• n.. hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood
• v.. whip with a birch twig
• a.. consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree