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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf.

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.

A piece of money coined in the east by

Richard II.

of England.

Crabb.

(Zoöl.)

The smew.

Adj.

Relating to the money of the Easterlings, or Baltic traders. See

Noun.

A native of some country eastward of another.

A species of waterfowl.

Easterling ‎(plural Easterlings)

(historical) A Baltic trader.
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