2 Sentences With "birchings"

How to use birchings in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "birchings" and check conjugation/comparative form for "birchings". Mastering all the usages of "birchings" from sentence examples published by news publications.

type: All Declarative Interrogative Exclamative

structure: All Simple Compound Complex Compound-Complex

length: All <=10 words 10-20 words 20-30 words 30-50 words

Medieval schoolboy birched on the bare buttocks (by Hans Holbein the Younger) Only if the recipient was a small child could he or she practicably be punished over the knee of the applicant. Otherwise the child would be bent over an object such as a chair. For judicial punishments the recipient could even be tied down if likely to move about too much or attempt to escape. In some prisons and reformatories, a wooden apparatus known as birching donkey or birching pony was specially constructed for birchings.
"Kissing the Gunner's Daughter", Part II - The Ryder Reforms at World Corporal Punishment Research. Around the same time, the civilian courts system followed the Navy's example and switched to birches for the judicial corporal punishment of boys and young men, where previously a whip or cat had been used. In an attempt to standardise the Navy's birches, the Admiralty had specimens called patterned birch (as well as a patterned cane), kept in every major dockyard, as birches had to be procured on land in quantities. The term judicial birch generally refers to the severe type in use for court-ordered birchings, especially the Manx hazel birch.