2. The wood or timber of the birch.
3. A birch twig or birch twigs, used for flogging.
Note: The twigs of the common European birch (B. alba), being
tough and slender, were formerly much used for rods in
schools. They were also made into brooms.
The threatening twigs of birch. --Shak.
{Birch of Jamaica}, a species ({Bursera gummifera}) of
turpentine tree.
{Birch partridge}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Ruffed grouse}.
{Birch wine}, wine made of the spring sap of the birch.
{Oil of birch}.
(a) An oil obtained from the bark of the common European
birch ({Betula alba}), and used in the preparation of
genuine (and sometimes of the imitation) Russia
leather, to which it gives its peculiar odor.
(b) An oil prepared from the black birch ({B. lenta}),
said to be identical with the oil of wintergreen, for
which it is largely sold.