birk

[ burk; Scot. birk ]

/ bɜrk; Scot. bɪrk /

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

Nearby words

birendra bir bikram shah dev, biretta, birgitta, biri, biriani, birk, birkbeck, birken, birkenhead, birkenstock, birket karun

Origin of birk

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

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Examples from the Web for 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|DAILY BEAST
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
Birkie, birk′i, n. a strutting or swaggering fellow: a fellow generally.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)|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

He would be half the day in finding the valley road that led to Birk's Mill.
The Young Mountaineers|Charles Egbert Craddock
Birk will burn be it burn drawn; sauch will sab if it were simmer sawn.
The Proverbs of Scotland|Alexander Hislop

British Dictionary definitions for birk

birk

/ (bɪrk, bɜːk) mainly Scot /

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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