Easterling

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the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A native of a country eastward of another; -- used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic.
  • n. A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England.
  • n. The smew.
  • adj. Relating to the money of the Easterlings, or Baltic traders. See sterling.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A native of some country lying eastward of another; an Oriental: formerly applied in England to the Hanse merchants and to traders in general from parts of Germany and from the shores of the Baltic.
  • n. The name given to the English silver pennies (also called sterlings) of the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries; also to European imitations of the same. See sterling.
  • n. The common widgeon, Mareca penelope. Latham.
  • n. The smew or white nun, Mergellus albellus. Montagu.
  • Belonging to the money of the Easterlings or Baltic traders. See sterling.
    • Word Usage
    "Many of them were easterling hulks laden with stores for a new invasion of England."
    Variant
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