Birchbark-biting
noun
a Native Canadian craft in which designs are bitten onto bark from birch trees
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of or relating to birch. made or consisting of birch: birchen furniture. Historical Examples Indian Child Life Charles A. Eastman Indian Boyhood [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman The Green Forest Fairy Book Loretta Ellen Brady The Man of Adamant Nathaniel Hawthorne East of the Sun and West of the Moon Peter Christen Asbjrnsen The Peace […]
- Bircher
a member, advocate, or follower of the John Birch Society and its principles. any tree or shrub of the genus Betula, comprising species with a smooth, laminated outer bark and close-grained wood. Compare birch family. the wood itself. a birch rod, or a bundle of birch twigs, used especially for whipping. birchen. to beat or […]
- Birching
any tree or shrub of the genus Betula, comprising species with a smooth, laminated outer bark and close-grained wood. Compare birch family. the wood itself. a birch rod, or a bundle of birch twigs, used especially for whipping. birchen. to beat or punish with or as if with a birch: The young ruffians were birched […]
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any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg. a fowl or game bird. Sports. clay pigeon. a shuttlecock. Slang. a person, especially one having some peculiarity: He’s a queer bird. Informal. an […]
- Bird-band
a band put on a bird’s leg to identify it for observations about its range, behavior, longevity, migration patterns, etc.