Meaning

(now dialectal) Eastern..

Definitions by Sense

1. (now dialectal) Eastern.
2. comparative form of east: more east
3. An easterly wind (a wind blowing from the east); especially, a strong one; a storm of such winds.
4. To move toward the east.

Example Sentences

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.

This is properly two, if not three towns — there being an Easter Anstruther and a Wester Anstruther, both burghs, besides a large fishing village […]

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 […]

It is styled, as we have seen, Wester Rires, which implies an Easter Rires; and this last portion of it probably lay to the north-east, and included […]

'The fact remains that there is an Easter Fintry and a Wester Fintry in this part of the world. Just as there is an Easter Golford and a Wester Golford, ...

A northeaster in one place may be an easter, a norther, or a souther in some other locality.

At 5 the wind eastered and came E. by N., that we went 2 knots […] .

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 ...

Word Forms

• more easter
• most easter
• easters
• eastering
• eastered

Synonyms for easter

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Use easter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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