Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Hastings"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hastings \Has"tings\, n. pl. [From {Haste}, v.]
Early fruit or vegetables; especially, early pease.
--Mortimer.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Hastings
n 1: United States architect who formed and important
architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929)
[syn: {Hastings}, {Thomas Hastings}]
2: a town in East Sussex just south of the place where the
Battle of Hastings took place [syn: {Hastings}]
3: the decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of
Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and
thus left England open for the Norman Conquest [syn: {Hastings},
{battle of Hastings}]
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