Definitions for Birch

Birch birch

Spelling: [burch]
IPA: /bɜrtʃ/

Birch is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in Birch (bchir).

Definitions for Birch

noun

  1. any tree or shrub of the genus Betula, comprising species with a smooth, laminated outer bark and close-grained wood. Compare birch family.
  2. the wood itself.
  3. a birch rod, or a bundle of birch twigs, used especially for whipping.

adjective

  1. birchen.

verb (used with object)

  1. to beat or punish with or as if with a birch:

Origin of Birch

before 900; Middle English birche, Old English birce; cognate with Old High German birka (German Birke); akin to Sanskrit bhūrja kind of birch

Examples for Birch

Out of it he drew a roll of birch bark painted with juice of poke-berries.

Sustainable Cards uses a Nordic birch veneer, and then layers on a cellulosic paper structure.

It was then that our captain took me aside, and he says, 'birch, will you assist me?

Captain birch briefly responded on behalf of the Volunteers.

But you do not have a 50-foot birch lying across your driveway.

It was birch who took Gilbert and George to China, a trip on which Compston was invited, missed the plane, and came along later.

But when he felt the blows of Munro, his spirit lay under the birch.

The general and Captain birch were both wounded, early in the night.

Wetlands protected under the “Clean Water Act of 1972” are being polluted with birch beer precursor chemicals.

Russians believe the best way to dry out from vodka saturation is with a sauna session and a beating with birch branches.

Word Value for Birch
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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