birch
noun
any tree or shrub of the genus Betula, comprising species with a smooth, laminated outer bark and close-grained wood.
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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He had birched it down to Lake Chesuncook in by-gone summers, to see Katahdin distant.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 by Various