Meaning of Starling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.
2. An enclosure like a coffer-dam, formed of piles driven closely together before any structure or work, as a protection against the wash of waves, commonly used to protect the piers of a bridge.
3. An English surname transferred from the nickname from a nickname for a gregarious person.
4. The common starling, Sturnus vulgaris, which has dark, iridescent plumage.
5. One of the piles used in forming such a breakwater.
6. A male given name transferred from the surname.
7. A fish, rock trout (Hexagrammos spp.), of the North Pacific, especially, Hexagrammos decagrammus, found in US waters.

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Examples

“Vast flights of starlings, fleeing the racket, beat⟳ across the sky at high speed⟳, like⟳ Squall-clouds,— Evening at Noon-tide.”

“When we had all laughed and applauded till we were faint, Starling, not to be outdone, favoured us with a more modern saltatory entertainment in the Lancashire clog manner — to the best of my belief, the longest dance⟳ ever performed […]”

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