birched
Beaten with branches
Birched is the past tense of birch, meaning to beat someone with a birch rod or bundle of birch twigs as punishment.
Birching was once a common form of corporal punishment in schools and prisons: The headmaster birched the boy for stealing.
The practice is now largely historical in most countries.
Striking with a rod
- whippingRepeated striking blows
- floggingBeating as punishment
- spankingStriking the buttocks
- strappingMuscular and hale
flagellation · chastisement · corporal · discipline · correction · beaten · switched · thrashed
School's chief administrator
- detentionTemporary official holding
- classroomEducational instruction space
- pupilsStudents or eye openings
- caneStick for support
prefect · boarding school · public school · Eton · discipline · rules · uniform · strictness
Of a prim era
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
- antiquatedOld and outdated
- bygoneOf earlier times
traditional · outdated · archaic · ceremonial · ritualistic · customary · heritage · conventional
caning
Striking with a rod
strapping · flagellation · chastisement · corporal · discipline · correction · beaten · switched · thrashed · lashed
headmaster
School's chief administrator
- detentionTemporary official holding
- classroomEducational instruction space
- pupilsStudents or eye openings
cane · prefect · boarding school · public school · Eton · discipline · rules · uniform · strictness · teacher
Victorian
Of a prim era
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
- antiquatedOld and outdated
bygone · traditional · outdated · archaic · ceremonial · ritualistic · customary · heritage · conventional · historic
harsh
Unpleasantly severe or rough
severe · merciless · painful · stinging · welts · marks · humiliating · dreaded · feared · unforgiving
- birch forestsWoodlands of white-barked trees
- birch barkPale tree's outer layer
- silver birchWhite-barked deciduous tree
- birch treesPale-barked deciduous hardwoods
- white birchPale-barked deciduous hardwood
- birch beerSoda flavored with bark
birch, birches, birching, birch tree, silver birch, paper birch, yellow birch, white birch