easterling

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: east=er=ling

CIDE DICTIONARY

easterling, n. [Cf. Sterling.].

•  A native of a country eastward of another; -- used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic.  [1913 Webster]

  "Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us."  [1913 Webster]
•  A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England.  Crabb.  [1913 Webster]
•  The smew.  [1913 Webster]

easterling, a. 

 Relating to the money of the Easterlings, or Baltic traders. See Sterling.  [1913 Webster]