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                    as in to hide
                                                
              
          
                                                      to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible                                       
              
                             students at the private school were once routinely birched for violating the rules                         
                
                                                                                                                                
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                    as in to lick
                                                
              
          
                                                      to strike repeatedly                                       
              
                             always a stern disciplinarian, our father birched anyone who talked back                         
                
                                                                                                                                                                          
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