Definitions for eastings

eastings east·ing

Spelling: [ee-sting]
IPA: /ˈi stɪŋ/

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

You can make 370 anagrams from letters in eastings (aeginsst).

Definitions for eastings

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 eastings

First recorded in 1620-30; east + -ing1

Examples for eastings

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Word Value for eastings
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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