stearin n also stairn, starin.
1977 Christmas Bells Dec, p. 13 Sure a gull, or a starin or a tickless can't carry much more den a herrin. 1966 SCAMMELL 91 Hundreds of white birds, starins and tickleaces (kittiwakes) could be seen. 1985 NEWHOOK 12 There were many things to see [in the sky]--wheeling birds, blue gulls, saddlebacks and screaming terns which we referred to as stairns.
