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as in to leather
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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“Birch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/birch. Accessed 29 Nov. 2022.
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