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