Birching vs. Flogging — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Birching and Flogging
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Birching
Birching is a form of corporal punishment with a birch rod, typically applied to the recipient's bare buttocks, although occasionally to the back and/or shoulders.
Flogging
To beat severely with a whip or rod.
Birching
Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs of the genus Betula, native to the Northern Hemisphere and having unisexual flowers in catkins, alternate, simple, toothed leaves, and bark that often peels in thin papery layers.
Flogging
(Informal) To publicize aggressively
Flogging a new book.
Birching
The hard, close-grained wood of any of these trees, used especially in furniture, interior finishes, and plywood.
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Flogging
Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.
What lawbreakers like that need is a good flogging. Do that and watch the crime rate plummet.
Birching
A rod from a birch, used to administer a whipping.
Flogging
Present participle of flog
Birching
To whip with or as if with a birch.
Flogging
Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
Birching
Present participle of birch
Birching
A beating with a birch.
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