Definitions for easting

easting east·ing

Spelling: [ee-sting]
IPA: /ˈi stɪŋ/

Easting is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 285 anagrams from letters in easting (aeginst).

Definitions for easting

noun

  1. Navigation. the distance due east made good on any course tending eastward; easterly departure.
  2. a shifting eastward; easterly direction.
  3. Surveying. a distance east from a north-south reference line.

Origin of easting

First recorded in 1620-30; east + -ing1

Examples for easting

And yet here you are, with all the stuff of the sea in you, running down your easting for port.

We couldn't make our easting a bit, and the old man kept saying that we should never get through the Straits.

Through our ninety degrees of easting I had but little exercise.

That coming from the poles will appear to have easting in them, and those going towards the poles westing.

At this time we began to prepare for the heavy weather of our easting, as the run across the Indian Ocean is called.

Then came the day, when, steering east by south, they started to “run their easting down.”

It was intensely monotonous and the adventurous spells were only occasional, like the time we ran the easting down the Horn.

The captain, eager for easting, made a fair wind of it and guyed the booms out wing and wing.

As we were easting off the rope the sound of a paddle was heard up the stream, and we accordingly kept on.

My experience in running down the easting has always been the same and I have made the trip a number of times.

Word Value for easting
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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