Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere. / A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.

To punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood. / To punish as though one were using a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.

plural of birch

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of birch

simple past tense and past participle of birch

present participle of birch

A beating with a birch.

plural of birching

plural of Birch

A surname. / A nickname of the surname Birchall. / A village and civil parish in Colchester borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL9419).