What is "birched"

Usage examples of "birched".

What sort of dignity she could maintain while being birched was beyond her, but that was the future.

By the time I have her birched, she'll tie herself to the birching frame if I order it.

I shall have you birched at breakfast, Sarah, if you continue this disobedience.

Some young women are, ever secretly rejoicing in their naughtiness and, once tickled and teased or birched, allowing their drawers to be pulled down, they ever wish to be overcome.

At least it explained why the Greens had been in such an outstanding rage when Adelorna was birched.

For one thing, as much as I hate to say it, Romanda has Magla so tight under her thumb that Magla squeaks whenever Romanda sneezes, and the only doubt Romanda has is whether Elaida should be birched before she’s exiled.

The Hall had not ordered anyone birched yet, but the way most Sitters chafed at the bit over Egwene’s control of the war, it could hardly come as a surprise if they jumped at the chance to show they still had some authority while simultaneously expressing their displeasure forcefully.

Moria wants Elaida birched for every single death before she goes to the headsman.

Libby had birched Cynthia privately, but Cynthia doesn't want to tell me the details.