birk
Americannoun
noun
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a birch tree
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(plural) a birch wood
adjective
Etymology
Origin of birk
before 900; Middle English byrk, Old English birc, by-form of birce birch
Example Sentences
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He describes the rain "spattering on crumbelt conkreat and bustit birk and durdling in the puddls gurgling down the runnels of the dead town."
From Time Magazine Archive
"I'll go through nine fires so hot, With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan;110 But I'll give him a drink for young Hynd Horn's sake, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
Flows Yarrow sweet, as sweet flows Tweed, As green its grass, its gowan as yellow, As sweet smells on its braes the birk, The apple frae the rock as mellow.
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert
They would then say, Birk eeaudee, birk attajar u straha, "Alight, I pray thee, alight, merchant! and rest yourself."
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Jackson, James Grey
"I'll cast off my gowns of red, With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan; And along with thee I'll beg my bread,135 And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
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