How To Use beechen In A Sentence
- Apparently it comes from “beech” as in beech tree because the Saxons and Germans usually wrote runes on pieces of beechen board. Two Things « So Many Books
- A beechen implement, resembling somewhat our potato masher, and called the "brayer," was used to manipulate the ink as it lay on the table; an iron shovel, known as the "slicer," being used to portion out from the mass of ink such quantities as were needed from time to time for the brayer. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
- This last haunts only the tops of trees in high beechen woods, and makes a sibilous grasshopper-like noise, now and then, at short intervals, shivering a little with its wings when it sings; and is, I make no doubt now, the _regulus non cristatus_ of Ray, which he says "_cantat voce stridula locustae_. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
- Bacon, _of the Beechen tree_, anciently called BUCON; and, whereas swinesflesh is now called by the name of BACON, it grew only at the first unto such as were fatted with BUCON or _beechmast_. Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851
