birch n Attrib, comb birch broom, ~ junk, ~ rind.
   [1900] 1989 Nfld Qtly lxxxv (2), 25 The homemade birchbroom that was used by the hired girl to scrub the flagstone walks that crisscrossed in an intricate pattern to reach every building on our farm stood at the back door. 1986 FELTHAM 175 Many Labrador schoonermen augmented their income by cutting birch junks...during the winter and taking them to St John's, to be sold in the spring. 1986 SAUNDERS 146 Birch rind--I mean big sheets of birch rind...the kind you get off a white birch you can just get your arms around--was all we ever used.

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