A switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment.
1Keep the birch rod in mind; it's hanging behind the mirror.
2But the old fairy with the birch rod soon undeceives them.
3What care they for the ferule and birch rod now?
4It wasn't an olive branch that the dove was carrying-itwas a birch rod!
5Ah, Master Cheever has taken down that terrible birch rod!
6In one hand St. Nicholas carried two large packages; in the other, a birch rod.
7Flogging with a birch rod was used for discipline.
8See, the birch rod has lost several of its twigs, and will hardly serve for another execution.
9And finally there was nothing left but a huge birch rod, which reminded him of his childhood.
10But a boy is so unexpected, there's no beating a boy, except with a good birch rod.
11He hastened to Walter Skinner's horse, cut him loose from his tether, and struck him sharply with the birch rod.
12In half an hour they were making momentary music under the avenging birch rod of Duncan Duncanson, the learned Dullarg schoolmaster.
13The monks did not spare the birch rod, and soon it was a case of a whipping for every lesson not learned.
14Very ugly Tom thought her, with her green spectacles on a great hooked nose and a big birch rod under her arm.
15In the narrow crack between the oven and the wall rested always a birch rod, which was often referred to at critical moments.
16Three strokes of a birch rod fell on each revolutionary, and not Ernest Churchouse nor his mother could console Abel for this reverse.
Translations for birch rod