birk
[burk; Scot. birk]
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Origin of birk
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Contemporary Examples
Police say they have received more than 4,000 tips since Chief Birk warned that a “predator” is at large in the community.
Historical Examples
Birk will burn be it burn drawn; sauch will sab if it were simmer sawn.
The Proverbs of ScotlandAlexander Hislop
The plants in all these are either a brier and a rose, or a brier and a birk.
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 schoolgirlAngela Brazil
Birkie, birk′i, n. a strutting or swaggering fellow: a fellow generally.
"They air a-goin' ter hev a pea-fowel fur dinner down yander ter Birk's Mill," Rick remarked.
The Young MountaineersCharles Egbert Craddock
birk
- a birch tree
- (plural) a birch wood
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- consisting or made of birch
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Word Origin
C14: from Old Norse; compare birch
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