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Birching vs. Flogging — What's the Difference?

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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