easterling

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easterling - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Easterling \East"er*ling\, a.
     Relating to the money of the Easterlings, or Baltic traders.
     See Sterling.
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  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.
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              Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . .
              Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us.
                                                    --Holinshed.
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     2. A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of
        England. --Crabb.
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     3. (Zo["o]l.) The smew.
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