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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



... with the city had increased to such an extent that Ethelred, his son, deemed it time to draw up a code of laws to regulate the customs to be paid by the merchants of France and Flanders as well as by the "emperor's men," the fore-runners of those "easterling" merchants, who, from their headquarters in the Steel-yard at Dowgate, subsequently became known ...
— London and the Kingdom - Volume I • Reginald R. Sharpe


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