birch

consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree

hard close grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood

any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark

a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment

my father never spared the birch

whip with a birch twig