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stearn

  • noun [ masculine ]
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stearn, es; m.
Some kind of bird. [Starn is a name for the starling in the Shetland Isles; the same bird is called a starnel in Northants. v. E. D. S. Pub., Bird Names, p. 73. Starn is used in Norfolk for the common tern: and stern is a name for the black tern, ib. pp. 202, 204]
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  • Stearn, stearno, stern beacita (according to Migne

    beacita

    is a woodcock or snipe),
      Txts. 45, 284.

  • Stearn, Wrt. Voc. i. 281, 3: ii. 11, 1: beatica, i. 62, 32: beacita vel sturnus, 29, 6:

    fida

    ii.
      108, 52.

  • Stern,

      35, 28.

  • Stern

    avis qui dicitur gavia,

      Txts. 108, 1116.

  • Stærn

    stronus ( = sturnus ),

      Wrt. Voc. i. 29, 39.

  • Him stearn

    (the tern)

    oncwæð ísigfeþera,
      Exon. Th. 307, 14; Seef. 23.
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v.  stærn stern.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “stearn.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/28826.

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