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  • noun A wood largely populated with birch trees.

Etymologies

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birch +β€Ž wood

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Examples

  • The man was whittling a stave of birchwood into a rude axe-handle, and asked the question without raising his head.

    THE GREAT INTERROGATION 2010

  • Each artist was given a blank birchwood postcard and asked to create a unique work based on the theme, β€œPEN PALS.”

    Postcard auction to benefit war orphans 2010

  • From under the bed, India pulled a tin box faux painted to look like birchwood.

    One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010

  • It was just above freezing outside, but inside the bent birchwood and tarred tarpaulin covering, the bender was spacious and warm from a potbelly stove.

    A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010

  • From under the bed, India pulled a tin box faux painted to look like birchwood.

    One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010

  • The boreal region has only small-scale wood products facilities: mainly small sawmills and facilities to manufacture specialty products such as house logs and birchwood items.

    Land tenure and management in the boreal region 2009

  • I could see that Hassel was capable of other things besides sawing birchwood.

    The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009

  • Then there's a striped lobby (black and gray granite, plaster and light Norwegian birchwood), with the visual overkill of a Bloomingdale's cosmetics counter.

    New Museum By The Bay 2008

  • At Sabi, for example, 25 kilometers southeast of Moscow, fishermen cast lines from docks along the wooded shore, which are dotted with whimsical sculptures made of birchwood.

    Escape From Moscow: Joyce Man 2008

  • On the other hand, it is not as sensual or wild as you might expect from a base containing rum, vanilla and silver birchwood.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Ayala Sender 2007

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