
thumb|Birching of a prison inmate during interrogation; The Netherlands, 17th century
thumb|Birching of a prison inmate during interrogation; The Netherlands, 17th century
Birching is a form of corporal punishment with a birch rod, typically used to strike the recipient's bare buttocks, although occasionally the back and/or shoulders.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).