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.
Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us.
Holinshed.
2.
A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England.
Crabb.
3. Zool.
The smew.
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East"er*ling, a.
Relating to the money of the Easterlings, or Baltic traders. See Sterling.
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