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Easterling   Listen
noun
Easterling  n.  
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."
2.
A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England.
3.
(Zoöl.) The smew.





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"Easterling" Quotes from Famous Books



... in her day—among the rest, that heaviest work of all, the bringing you into the world and keeping you in it till now—honest, kindly, cheerful folk enough, and not inefficient in their own calling; though an average Northumbrian, or Highlander, or Irish Easterling, beside carrying a brain of five times the intellectual force, could drive five such men over the cliff with his bare hands. It is not a sad sight, I say, to see them sitting about upon those seaside ...
— Health and Education • Charles Kingsley


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