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Birchbark   Listen
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birchbark  n.  A canoe made with the bark of a birch tree.
Synonyms: birchbark canoe.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Birchbark" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the morning, she and Sofya appeared before Nikolay as burgher women, poorly clad in worn chintz skirts and blouses, with birchbark sacks on their shoulders, and canes in their hands. This costume reduced Sofya's height and gave a yet sterner appearance to ...
— Mother • Maxim Gorky

... the whole North, and they are perhaps the least unspoiled of "civilisation," as their range is removed from the north-and-south route afforded by the Mackenzie. To-morrow the treaty party will leave, the skin tepees will be pulled down, and in those beautiful birchbark canoes whole families will be on the move. These people are essentially meat-eaters. Their hearts have not learned to hunger for those soggy bannocks, unventilated shacks, and sheet-iron stoves which are luring their tribal cousins on the germ-strewn ...
— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron

... and traveling southward, he came to what is now called Allegheny River. Securing birchbark canoes, he and his party descended the Allegheny to its junction with the Monongahela, then turning southwestward on the beautiful stream formed by these two small rivers and now known as the Ohio, he explored the ...
— The story of Kentucky • Rice S. Eubank

... started,' he commanded, drawing out the precious matchbox with its attendant strips of dry birchbark. ...
— The Son of the Wolf • Jack London



Words linked to "Birchbark" :   birchbark canoe, canoe



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