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Birch rod

noun

A switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment. Synonym: birch.

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... Monsieur Joseph, very angry. "Go to bed this instant, little imp, or I shall come upstairs with a birch rod. You will gain nothing by your dishonourable listening. I shall send you to Mademoiselle Moineau to-morrow, to ...

— Angelot - A Story of the First Empire • Eleanor Price

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... hardly breathed, they stood so still. They looked at St. Nicholas with big, big eyes. In one hand St. Nicholas carried two large packages; in the other, a birch rod. ...

— The Dutch Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins

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... eluding the watchfulness of Mrs. Quinlan, that Mike slipped away to the neighboring village of an afternoon, and it was on foot that I one night saw Mrs. Quinlan going over the same road with an invincible determination in her countenance and a small birch rod in her hand. Mrs. Quinlan was somewhat younger than her lord and master: she had a clear, bright-blue eye, a roseate color in her little slender face, and gray hair tidily smoothed back beneath the dainty ruffles of her cap, about which ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XXVI., December, 1880. • Various

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Words linked to "Birch rod" : switch