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
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 Alexander Macbain
How sweetly bloomed the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn’s blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasped her to my bosom!
From Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands by Hezekiah Butterworth
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 Robert Turnbull
It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came hame, 20 And their hats were o' the birk.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
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