birch

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a canoe built from the bark of the white birch, long used by the Indians of eastern Canada.

Quotations

1896

Running my birch ashore alongside of a mouldering trunk . . . I made my way . . . through the underwood. . . .

1898

For before you could think The birch cracked like a shell, In that rush of hell, And I saw them both sink.