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

I hated this, and would rather have been birched secundum artem than to have seen the girls giggling at me.

From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)

During this time two boys were birched by the queen's orders, and an officer was sent out to inquire why the watch he had given her did not go.

From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning