α. 1800s staragan, 1800s staragon, 1800s– starigan, 1800s– starrigan, 1900s– stalligan, 1900s– starrigin, 1900s– sterigan.
β. 1900s– stalligan.
γ. 1900s– statigan.
starrigann.
/ˈstarᵻɡ(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈstɛrəɡ(ə)n/, Canadian English /ˈstærəɡ(ə)n/ Newfoundland.
A young, stunted, or decayed evergreen tree (chiefly fir), often cut for firewood; a stick, branch, or stump of this.
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c1894 W. Pilot Newfoundland Folk Talk (Newfoundland Provinc. Arch. MS P4/14) 198 Dry wood is staragons or crunnocks.
1895 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 8 39 Starrigan, a young fir-tree, which is neither good for firewood nor large enough to be used for timber, hence applied with contempt to anything constructed of unsuitable materials.
1903 Newfoundland Q. Dec. 5 He could get nothin' there but a few green var starrigans..or dun boughs.
1920 A. Grenfell & K. Spalding Le Petit Nord 94 Light snow has fallen during the night, and every ‘starigan’, every patch of ‘tuckamore’ is ‘decked in sparkling raiment white’.
1977 Decks Awash Sept. 64 De bull would get de tacklin An off 'e'd go for starrigans Wid frosty snow acracklin.
2005 B. Stagg Lend me your Ears 94 Instantly, Thumb-On grabbed a starrigan..that was leaning against a tree, stuck it into the cavity and threw his weight on it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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