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n. (plural of birk English)
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Birks may refer to:
Birks is a fell in the English Lake District situated two kilometres south west of the village of Patterdale in the Eastern Fells. The fells summit sits on a shoulder of the north east ridge of the higher and better known fell of St Sunday Crag, by which it is dominated, walkers often pass over the top of Birks either climbing or descending from the larger fell. The fell's name means a place where Birch trees predominate.
Birks is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Frederick Birks (1894-1917), Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Gerald Alfred Sigourney Birks (1894-1991), Canadian fighter ace in World War I
- Henry Birks (1840–1928), Canadian businessman and founder of the Canadian jewelry store, Birks & Mayors
- Jānis Birks (1956), Latvian politician, the Mayor of Riga between 2007 and 2009
- Peter Birks (1941-2004), Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford
- Thomas Rawson Birks (1810- 1883), Professor, theologian and controversialist at Oxford
- Lawrence Birks (1874–1924), Australian Electrical Engineer
Usage examples of "birks".
Outside Birks Hall I nearly collided with a tall young man walking head down, his hair and glasses coated with snowflakes the size of luna moths.
I rewound and returned the films and hurried across campus to Birks Hall.
As we cam' through the scented birks, we saw a trottin' burnie wimplin' `neath the white-blossomed slaes and hirplin' doon the hillside.
She’s already been given the engraved silver cup from Birks, the nursery wallpaper with the frieze of domesticated bears, the starter pearls for her single-strand pearl necklace, and all the other golden gifts, perfectlycomme il faut, that will turn to coal when the sun rises.
Bronze pairs of pants, bronze boots, like those dreadful babies' shoes that sentimental people have 'eternalized' at Birks.