Meaning of Easting | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The distance east of a standard reference meridian.
   countable, uncountable
2. A distance traveled eastward.
   countable, uncountable
3. A turning towards the east.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“It was very tiring and slow work, yet I did visibly gain ground; and as we drew near the Cape of the Woods, though I saw I must infallibly miss that point, I had still made some hundred yards of easting.”

“He had, in truth, drunk very little - not a fourth of the quantity which a systematic tippler could carry to church on a Sunday afternoon without a hitch in his eastings or genuflections; but the weakness of Sir John's constitution made mountains of his petty sins in this kind.”

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