birchy a
   1 Surrounded by, or thick with, birch trees;
   esp in place-names.
   [1771] 1792 CARTWRIGHT i, 120 It was with great difficulty we regained the shore at Birchy Cascade: we hauled our skiff up and spent the night by a good fire in the woods. 1951 Nfld & Lab Pilot i, 224 Birchv cove is entered between a point about 6 ½ cables northward of the northern entrance point of Stanley cove, and a point three-quarters of a mile farther northward. 1971 SEARY 139 THE BIRCHIES [Ponds) (NTS Bay Bulls). C 75-29 Birchy rattles [is] a water area around which there was a large number of birch trees. The trees were cut for fire wood.
   2 Descriptive of the flavour of the wild 'browse'-fed rabbit, etc.
   P 120-76 That was a fine birchy rabbit.

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