starr

plural starrs · plural starra · alternative starre · alternative star · alternative Starr · alternative shetar · alternative sheṭar · alternative shtar · alternative shtarr

1. historicalA receipt given by Jews on payment of debt.

   Later in the same year 'when Burnell had retired from court' he personally acknowledged twenty-two Jewish starra whilst he was staying at Beaulieu.

   2013, Sarah Rees Jones, Christians and Jews in Angevin England

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   It is well known that, before the banishment of the Jews under Edward I., their contracts and obligations were denominated in our ancient records starra, or starrs, from a corruption of the Hebrew word shetar, a covenant.

   1846, Moses Margoliouth, The Jews in Great Britain

   In the Treasury nil, and bv quittance which the said Gervase and Hugo his son have of the said debt by a Starr which the said Hugo produced at the Treasury before the Barons £90.

   1893, Joseph Jacobs, The Jews of Angevin England

   Huntingdonshirr. son of master Moss the Jew, by his charter, he came before the justices, etc., and proffered certain starrs of acquittance of the said debt which the aforesaid Jacob had made to the aforesaid Nicholas his father, as he says, at the time when the same Jacob had the free administration of his goods.

   1932, The Publications of the Selden Society, volume 49, page 1

plural Starrs

1. A surname.
   1. countableuncountableA surname, variant of Star
   2. countableuncountableAn English surname from nature
2. countableuncountableA female given name.
3. A placename
   1. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Hocking County, Ohio, United States.
   2. countableuncountableA town in Anderson County, South Carolina, United States.
   3. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Starr County.