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Noun: birch rod
Usage: archaic
  1. A switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment
    "my father never spared the birch rod";
    - birch

Derived forms: birch rods

Type of: switch

Encyclopedia: Birch rod