easter
An easterly wind (a wind blowing from the east); especially, a strong one; a storm of such winds.
Adjective
- Eastern.
- In the mean while, as our apartment was a corner one, and looked both east and north, I ran to the easter casement to look after Drummond. - 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner,...
- This is properly two, if not three towns — there being an Easter Anstruther and a Wester Anstruther, both burghs, besides a large fishing village […] - 1828, The Picture of Scotland, page 187:
- There had been a Little and a Meikle, and an Easter and a Wester Coull two centuries ago; and there had been a castle on the property […] - 1885, Alex Johnston Warden, Angus Or Forfarshire: The Land and People,...
- comparative form of east: more east
Origin
From Old English eastera, eastra. Compare norther, souther, wester.
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Noun
- An easterly wind (a wind blowing from the east); especially, a strong one; a storm of such winds.
- A northeaster in one place may be an easter, a norther, or a souther in some other locality. - 1902, John Burroughs, Locusts and Wild Honey, page 81:
Synonyms: east wind eastwind easterly East
Coordinate Terms: northeaster noreaster northeasterly southeaster southeasterly norther northerly north wind northwind northwester northwesterly wester westerly west wind westwind southwester southwesterly souther
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Verb
- To move toward the east.
- Off Tilbury the Alcyone's topsail-yard was carried away just forward of the slings; she set a jib-headed one; at Thames Haven the wind eastered ... - 1871, Hunt's Yachting Magazine, page 265:
- At 5 the wind eastered and came E. by N., that we went 2 knots […] . - 1940(?), Thomas Allen, The Journals of Sir Thomas Allin, 1660-1678