DCHP-3

blue-beech tea

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a beating with a blue-beech stick.

Quotations

1925
. . . blue-beech tea . . . used to be very popular with the teachers of a past generation. It was brewed by making a blue-beech gad about a yard long and as thick as a man's finger and applying it vigorously to the writhing person of an unruly boy.