Crossword clues for birchbark
The Collaborative International Dictionary
birchbark \birch"bark`\ n. a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree.
Syn: birchbark canoe.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The bark of the birch tree, especially the white bark of the paper birch, ''Betula papyrifera''. 2 A piece of this bark, formerly used for writing on.
WordNet
n. a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree [syn: birchbark canoe, birch bark]
Usage examples of "birchbark".
I could make birchbark containers much faster than baskets, if only I had some hooves, bones, and hide scraps to boil for glue.
She wove new baskets and mats, made wooden bowls and platters, containers of stiff rawhide or birchbark, made new wraps, cured and dressed new furs, then made leggings, hats, hand and foot coverings for the next winter.
She offered a birchbark cup and held out the cool, dripping waterbag made from the stomach of a mountain goat.
But far away, on the other side of the lake, a birchbark canoe was to be seen, in which sat a young man, who paddled it skillfully and swiftly.
She poured some of the cooled gummy liquid into a smaller birchbark eating dish.
She did something similar to shape dishes of birchbark, piercing holes and tying the ends together with a knot.
She gave the lamp to Jondalar while she uncovered baskets, bowls, and birchbark containers that were stacked and nested within each other.
It was collected and boiled long in large skin pots until it became a thick, viscous syrup or crystallized into sugar, and stored in birchbark containers.
She took a birchbark cup from a flattish piece of wood stretched across two large rocks that also held a few shell dishes, a flint knife, and some rocks she used to crack nuts.
The host clan, who also tapped their maple trees in early spring and boiled the watery sap for long days, were interested as soon as they saw the familiar birchbark containers that were used to store maple sugars and syrup.
She searched through the rubble and found birchbark packets of maple sugar, nuts, dried fruit, ground parched grain, strips of dried meat and fish, and a few vegetables.
The birchbark containers were set off to the side to cool until the sunflower seed butter congealed.
The basket, divided into sections by flexible birchbark, was full of food.
She opened a birchbark packet and gave Ayla a compact cake of traveling food -- the nutritious mixture of dried fruits and meat and energy-giving essential fat, shaped into a round patty.
Talut pointed to a piece of charred birchbark, held down by the broken end of the left tusk.