easterling

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A native of some country lying eastward of another; an Oriental: formerly applied in England to the Hanse merchants and to traders in general from parts of Germany and from the shores of the Baltic.
2. n. The name given to the English silver pennies (also called sterlings) of the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries; also to European imitations of the same. See sterling.
3. n. The common widgeon, Mareca penelope. Latham.
4. n. The smew or white nun, Mergellus albellus. Montagu.
5. Belonging to the money of the Easterlings or Baltic traders. See sterling.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A native of a country eastward of another; -- used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic.
2. n. A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England.
3. n. (Zoöl.) The smew.
4. adj. Relating to the money of the Easterlings, or Baltic traders. See sterling.