birk

[burk; Scot. birk]

noun, adjective, verb (used with object) Scot. and North England.

birch.

Origin of birk

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

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Contemporary Examples of birk

Police say they have received more than 4,000 tips since Chief Birk warned that a “predator” is at large in the community.
A Tearful Goodbye to Colorado Kidnap Victim Jessica Ridgeway
Christine Pelisek
October 17, 2012

Historical Examples of birk

Birk will burn be it burn drawn; sauch will sab if it were simmer sawn.
The Proverbs of Scotland
Alexander Hislop
The plants in all these are either a brier and a rose, or a brier and a birk.
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Volume I of 5)
Various
It was a good hour's walk from the cromlechs to Birk Water, the lake where they intended to pick the rushes.
A harum-scarum schoolgirl
Angela Brazil
Birkie, birk′i, n. a strutting or swaggering fellow: a fellow generally.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
Various
"They air a-goin' ter hev a pea-fowel fur dinner down yander ter Birk's Mill," Rick remarked.
The Young Mountaineers
Charles Egbert Craddock

British Dictionary definitions for birk

birk

noun

a birch tree
(plural) a birch wood

adjective

consisting or made of birch

Word Origin for birk

C14: from Old Norse; compare birch

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