WordNet
n. a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree [syn: birchbark canoe, birchbark]
Wikipedia
Birch bark or birchbark is the bark of several Eurasian and North American birch trees of the genus Betula.
The strong and water-resistant cardboard-like bark can be easily cut, bent, and sewn, which made it a valuable building, crafting, and writing material, since pre-historic times. Even today birch bark remains a popular type of wood for various handicrafts and arts.
Birch bark also contains substances of medicinal and chemical interest. Some of those products (such as betulin) also have fungicidal properties that help preserve bark artifacts, as well as food preserved in bark containers.
Usage examples of "birch bark".
The alcohol had been spiked with birch bark, and it tasted sweet and earthy like newly turned soil.
Ayla had given the boy painkilling medicine that put him to sleep, then cleaned his wounds with an antiseptic solution, set the arm, and put on a cast of dampened birch bark.
You see, I have brought round for our use my best birch bark canoe.
I got a piece of birch bark to write all this on so I wouldnt get too anxious and go for the deer too soon.
That done, he found he had a mind to drink something other than plain water, and filled his only pot with scraps of birch bark, dried berries and spring-water and set it upon a warming stone to steep.
He wore an old wadded coat, top-boots and goloshes, and was carrying two pots of milk and two round boxes made of birch bark, which he placed in front of Rintzeva.