There is a further twist of the knife in the birching case.

Take a good birching or lose your pay?

Janet not only severely punished, also highly stimulated by the birching.

There was also a renewed enthusiasm for the birching of boy's' bottoms in the courts.

Birching or use of the cat o' nine tails would have been typical in the latter case.

The punishment can be flogging, caning, birching, whipping, or strapping.

Martin came into Ramage's cabin like a guilty schoolboy expecting a birching from his headmaster.

By the time I have her birched, she'll tie herself to the birching frame if I order it.

Today birching is rarely used for judicial punishment, and has also almost completely died out as a punishment for children.

In 1961 she went against the Conservative Party's official position by voting for the restoration of birching as a judicial corporal punishment.

In some circumstances the word "flogging" is used loosely to include any sort of corporal punishment, including birching and caning.

Judicial corporal punishment (birching and flogging) is abolished in the UK.

Birch twigs bound in a bundle, also called birch, were used for birching, a form of corporal punishment.

It was not until 1948 that Britain abolished judicial corporal punishment, usually whipping and birching - well after its European neighbours.

Birching is a corporal punishment with a birch rod, typically applied to the recipient's bare buttocks, although occasionally to the back and/or shoulders.

"Had she used saidar to punish or coerce you, I'd have seen her strapped to the triangle for birching, yet what she did broke no law."

The ultimate punishment, short of expulsion, is a birching administered by the saintly headmaster, Dr Locke.

One leader of the revolution, Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt, went mad, ending her days in an asylum after a public birching.

The latter relates his experiences of flogging at Eton and wishes to witness the birching of Miss Bellasis.

There was a careful gradation of corporal punishment, the ascending steps of which were known as siphoning, caning, flogging, tanning and birching.

More severe forms of spanking, such as switching, paddling, belting, caning, whipping, and birching, involve the use of an implement instead of a hand.