birk

American  

[burk, birk] / bɜrk, bɪrk /

noun

Scot. and North England.

1. birch.

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birk British  

/ bɪrk, bɜːk /

noun

1. a birch tree

2. (plural) a birch wood

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adjective

1. consisting or made of birch

Etymology

Origin of birk

before 900; Middle English byrk, Old English birc, by-form of birce birch

Example Sentences

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

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

And his name it was called young Hynd Horn, And the birk and the broom bloom bonnie.

From The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad by Macbain, Alexander

With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan; For it's seven years since I have seen land,55 And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various

How sweetly bloomed the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom!

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley