Easterling

Part of speech: noun (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. Holinshed.

2. A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England. Crabb.

3. The smew.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Relating to the money of the Easterlings, or Baltic traders. See Sterling.