'Easterling' definitions:
Definition of 'Easterling'
From: GCIDE
- Easterling \East"er*ling\, n. [Cf. Sterling.]
- 1. A native of a country eastward of another; -- used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic. [1913 Webster]
- Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us. --Holinshed. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England. --Crabb. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Zo["o]l.) The smew. [1913 Webster]