birch rod

1. 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”

   Synonymsbirch

   Broaderswitch

Questions about birch rod

What does birch rod mean?

birch rod means "a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment".

What is another word for birch rod?

Close synonyms include birch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is birch rod a common word?

birch rod is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.