DCHP-1 Online

birch

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

  See also: birchbark canoe  white birch  

  • 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.