badine — meaning in English

English meaning

• birch noun A tree with thin, often pale, peeling bark, common across the Northern Hemisphere.
• switch noun A device used to turn an electrical circuit on or off.

Senses

badine is used for these senses in English:

• birch A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
• switch A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in the United States.

birch — full definition

1. noun A tree with thin, often pale, peeling bark, common across the Northern Hemisphere.
2. noun A bundle of birch twigs formerly used as an instrument of corporal punishment.
3. verb To punish someone by beating them with a birch rod.

switch — full definition

1. noun A device used to turn an electrical circuit on or off.
2. noun A change or exchange from one thing to another.
3. verb To change from one thing, state, or place to another.
4. noun A device that connects multiple devices on a computer network, directing data between them.

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