starn

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.

The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850

Than, Herod, convenin the Wyss Men privately, faund oot mair strickly o 'the comin o' the starn;

01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003 John 2003

And whan they saw the starn, they were blythe wi 'unco blythness.

01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003 John 2003

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. "

01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003 John 2003

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.

01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003 John 2003

(Down-by-the-starn) had been head of that office for more years than a boy like him could count, and if he thought that when he had finished all his work, he could sit there doing nothing, he did not know him, Hemmings (Down-by-the-starn), and so forth.

The Man of Property 2004

It was not — by George — as he (Down-by-the-starn) would have him know, for a whippersnapper of a young fellow like him, to come down to that office, and think that he was God Almighty.

The Man of Property 2004

Secretary, ‘Down-by-the-starn’ Hemmings; an all-too-sad sadness beaming in his fine eyes; his iron-grey beard, in mourning like the rest of him, giving the feeling of an all-too-black tie behind it.

The Man of Property 2004

He answered ‘Down-by-the-starn’ Hemmings so tartly when the latter, seeing his Chairman seated there, entered with the new

The Man of Property 2004

All chips off the old block from stem to the starn.

Cawsand Bay 1996