Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tree, Betula papyrifera or papyracea, also known as the paper-birch, and sometimes as the white birch, the tough durable bark of which is used for making canoes in North America by the Indians and others. The bark of the young trees is chalky-white.
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Examples
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The white-birch, paper-birch, canoe-birch, grows large in moist spots near the stream where it is needed.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various
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The children thought this very interesting, and they wished that there were canoe-birch trees growing at Elmridge, that they might be enabled to try the experiment for themselves.
Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church
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Joe peeled a canoe-birch for bark for his hunting-horn.
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The spruce and fir trees crowded to the track on each side to welcome us, the arbor-vitæ with its changing leaves prompted us to make haste, and the sight of the canoe-birch gave us spirits to do so.
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Finland mothers make for their children of the leaves of the canoe-birch.
Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church
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No doubt there is good canoe-birch on the river-banks, but something more durable is needed.
Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton
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The first golden tints were ripening in the canoe-birch leaves, and the tremulous whisper of autumn was in the rustle of the aspen trees.
The Country Beyond James Oliver Curwood 1903
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The canoe-birch yields you its vestments with the utmost liberality.
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879
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I measured the largest canoe-birch which I saw in this journey near the end of the carry.
The Maine Woods 1858
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We took out our bags, and the Indian made a fire under a very large bleached log, using white-pine bark from a stump, though he said that hemlock was better, and kindling with canoe-birch bark.
The Maine Woods 1858
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