WordNet
birch rod
n. bundle of birch twigs used to hit people as punishment [syn: birch]
Usage examples of "birch rod".
As she would not tell me I got a birch rod, and twining her over my lap gave her bum a sharp tickling, when she said that Captain Powell sent for her brother and her, and he gave her brother a halfpenny to buy some sweets.
And he sent back an order to flog the two chief offenders, Vasiliev and the tramp, Nepomnishy, giving each thirty strokes with a birch rod.
When Arise accepted the document, twenty-one-year-old Verily took the birch rod from where it hung on the wall, broke it over his knee, and fed it into the kitchen fire.
She would not tell him she'd whistled when her father's birch rod whipped her back.