birched

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In Britain, by long tradition the novelist cuts his teeth on the old school in order to bite the hand that birched him, but the school novel is a comparative rarity in U.S. letters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since Great-Grandfather birched Grandfather for sneaking into the hayloft with a yellow, blue and green wrapped copy of Deadwood Dick on Deck, worrywarts have viewed U.S. reading habits with alarm.

From Time Magazine Archive

If this be true, I feel sure that Mr. Urban's stars glistened on eucalyptical roses whilst potted canopied moonlit sprays birched on every garden of gauze.

From Time Magazine Archive

You’ll excuse me,” continued the curate, as he obeyed the summons of his wife, like a school-boy ordered up to be birched.

From The King's Own by Marryat, Frederick

He himself once boasted that sixteen of the bishops who then occupied the bench had been birched with his "little rod".

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various