Definition of "starn" [starn]

• The European starling. (noun)

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• "As soon as he had steadied himself in his new position, a piece of rope was thrown up to him, -- by which Snowball was himself hoisted to the shoulders of the _cachalot_; and then the two seamen proceeded towards the tail, -- or, as the sailor pronounced it, the "starn" of this peculiar craft."
• "And quo 'they, "Whaur is he bidin that is ca'd King o' the Jews? for i 'the East we saw his starn, and are come forrit to worship him. ""
• "Eftir hearing the King, they gaed awa '; and lo! the starn whilk they saw i' the East gaed on afore them, till it stood whaur the wee bairn was."