Definition of "easterling" [east•er•ling]

• A native of a country eastward of another; -- used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic. (noun)
• A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England. (noun)
• The smew. (noun)
• Relating to the money of the Easterlings, or Baltic traders. See sterling. (adjective)

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• "Anthony, I think Peterson,Karl easterling will probably make Filnet code available."
• "Many of them were easterling hulks laden with stores for a new invasion of England."
• "Eastphalian traders, the ancestors of the merchant princes of Hamburg, were known in England by the name of _Easterlings_; and their money being of the purest quality, _easterling_, in Latin esterlingus, shortened to"