Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The bark of the birch tree, especially the white bark of the paper birch, Betula papyrifera.
- n. A piece of this bark, formerly used for writing on.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree
- n. a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree
Etymologies
- birch + bark (Wiktionary)
Examples
“How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark.”
“With its full stealth, supersonic cruise capability, and electronics that make the Starship Enterprise look like a birchbark canoe, it is utterly unmatched as a fighter aircraft.”
“We are literally still in the birchbark canoe stage of space exploration, testing the waters.”
“The troughs in the cement become shallow graves; the birchbark on her wrists in one of the Daphne images is a bracelet and also a bandage.”
The Wall Street Journal: When One Act Colors a Lifetime of Work
“Come, get a fire started,' he commanded, drawing out the precious matchbox with its attendant strips of dry birchbark.”
“Due to my completely unbalanced love of canoes -- birchbark canoes in particular -- the images that first come to mind when thinking of N.C.”
“There are ship models, death masks of Lincoln and Beethoven his favorite composer, a gun collection, horse ecorches, an authentic birchbark canoe, a native American drum, a skull with a bowler hat, saddles, and a lantern slide projector, which he used for projecting up his preliminary drawings.”
“Walls and roofs were made of horizontal boards, insulated with birchbark, and covered with weather-tight wooden shingles.42 Other Acadian house-types varied in the construction of walls.”
“Two days after the battle, the Indians began to torture their captives by fire and water, burning them with birchbark torches.”
“This seventeenth-century manuscript shows an Inuit sealskin kayak with a covered deck, and birchbark canoes of the Montagnais (lower St. Lawrence), Têtes-de-Boule (St. Maurice River), Amiakoues (Ottawa), and Algonquin (upper St. Lawrence).”
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