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
Seven lang years he served the King,5 With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan; And it's a' for the sake of his dochter Jean, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
The auld beggar man cast off his coat, With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan; And he's ta'en up the scarlet cloak, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
It fell about the Martinmass, When nights are lang and mirk, The carlin wife’s three sons came hame, And their hats were o’ the birk.
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick
It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o’ Paradise That birk grew fair eneugh.
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick
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