Hypertext Webster Gateway: "easterling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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. (Zo["o]l.) The smew.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Easterling \East"er*ling\, a.
Relating to the money of the Easterlings, or Baltic traders.
See {Sterling}.
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