easter — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Eastern.

   Usage

   • dialectal

   Examples

   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 […]

   More examples (3)

   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, ...

Noun

1. An easterly wind (a wind blowing from the east); especially, a strong one; a storm of such winds.

   Synonyms

   east windeastwindeasterlyEast

   Examples

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

Verb

1. To move toward the east.

   Examples

   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 ...

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

Noun

1. a wind from the east

   Synonyms

   east windeasterly

   Broader terms

   windair currentcurrent of air