easterling

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun 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.
• noun 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.
• noun The common widgeon, Mareca penelope. Latham.
• noun The smew or white nun, Mergellus albellus. Montagu.
• Belonging to the money of the Easterlings or Baltic traders. See sterling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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