Associations to the word «Birchbark»

Wiktionary

BIRCHBARK, noun. The bark of the birch tree, especially the white bark of the paper birch, Betula papyrifera.
BIRCHBARK, noun. A piece of this bark, formerly used for writing on.

Dictionary definition

BIRCHBARK, noun. A canoe made with the bark of a birch tree.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats