noun

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