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
I'll cast off my gowns of brown, With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan;130 And I'll follow thee from town to town, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
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 Butterworth, Hezekiah
"For when your ring turns pale and wan, With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan;30 Then I'm in love with another man, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan; And I'll give to thee my scarlet cloak,75 And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
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