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Birchen
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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World English Dictionary
| birch (bɜːtʃ) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | See also silver birch any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula, having thin peeling bark |
| 2. | the hard close-grained wood of any of these trees |
| 3. | the birch a bundle of birch twigs or a birch rod used, esp formerly, for flogging offenders |
| —adj | |
| 4. | of, relating to, or belonging to the birch |
| 5. | consisting or made of birch |
| —vb | |
| 6. | (tr) to flog with a birch |
| [Old English bierce; related to Old High German birihha, Sanskrit bhūrja] | |
| 'birchen | |
| —adj | |
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