Birched,

birched's Usage Examples:

Medieval schoolboy birched on the bare buttocks.

Helen Burns, the fourteen-year-old boarding-school girl who is cruelly birched by Miss Scatcherd and who befriends the ten-year-old Jane when Jane is.

her shop, whoever went with plenty of money, could be birched, whipped, fustigated, scourged, needle-pricked, half-hung, holly-brushed, furze-brushed, butcher-brushed.

In September 1810 he was birched in Dalneye Konstantinovo village, Teryushevskaya Volost.

Though it was said he once boasted of having birched sixteen of the bishops on the bench, many of his students would later speak.

Thus, at her shop, whoever went with plenty of money, could be birched, whipped, fustigated, scourged, needle-pricked, half-hung, holly-brushed.

before being secured to a birching horse, their trousers removed and then birched with hawthorn branches.

Scharffenberg is birched by "Mother Aase".

teens as a petty thief while in service at good houses, for which he was birched.

In March 1908, aged 11, he was birched for acquiring two suits using false pretences.

His father birched him until he agreed to walk by himself.

She also played, in that same year's BBC serial production of Jane Eyre (1973), the character of Helen Burns, the fourteen-year-old boarding-school girl who is cruelly birched by Miss Scatcherd and who befriends the ten-year-old Jane when Jane is a newcomer to Lowood Institute.

Until he became headmaster, disobedient students could be publicly birched by the headmaster or Lower Master (deputy head) on their bare buttocks.

Synonyms:

Betula neoalaskana, Betula papyrifera, grey birch, yellow birch, sweet birch, Betula populifolia, American white birch, Yukon white birch, common birch, swamp birch, tree, river birch, mountain birch, gray birch, Betula leutea, cherry birch, white birch, paperbark birch, Newfoundland dwarf birch, Betula nigra, Betula pubescens, American dwarf birch, Betula glandulosa, genus Betula, European white birch, paper birch, American gray birch, Betula cordifolia, Betula, Betula alleghaniensis, silver birch, downy birch, Western paper birch, water birch, birch tree, black birch, Western birch, Betula fontinalis, American grey birch, red birch, canoe birch, Betula pendula, Betula lenta,

Antonyms:

switch off, disengage, switch on,