East'er-ling1, n.
n. 1. A native of some country eastward of another; — especially used, by the English, of traders or other persons from the coasts of the Baltic.
Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us. Holinshed.
Sense 2. A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England. Wright.
Sense 3. A species of water-fowl. Johnson.