1. The punishment can be caning, bastinado, birching , strapping. 2. Bundled birch twigs symbolise corporal punishment ( see birching ). 3. He used birching to restore order and strengthen the authority of the masters. 4. Birching featured in the French Revolution.5. Although by now a hardened thief who has received a birching , Dicky occasionally attends school. 6. A lethal confrontation leaves Billy with a family blood vengeance and vulnerable to more than a birching . 7. Birching or use of the cat o'nine tails would have been typical in the latter case.8. LaBoeuf expresses his displeasure by birching Mattie with a stick, but Cogburn eventually allows Mattie to accompany them. 9. In that era, offences punishable by caning were similar to those punishable by birching or flogging in England and Wales. 10. Today birching is rarely used as a judicial punishment, and has also almost completely died out as a punishment for children.
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