eastlingadj.
/ˈiːs(t)lɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈis(t)lɪŋ/, Scottish English /ˈis(t)lɪŋ/, /ˈis(t)lɪn/ Scottish.
Chiefly of the wind: easterly.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > from specific point of compass
southeOE
northeOE
northerneOE
easternOE
southernOE
south-easternOE
north-easternOE
westernOE
south-westernOE
southena1325
north-east1379
east-north-easta1398
east-south-easta1398
north-north-easta1398
north-westa1398
south-southeasta1398
south-westc1400
south-easta1425
nor'-westa1500
south-southwesta1522
north-westera1525
northerlya1544
southerly1550
south-southeast?1560
south-easterly1577
north-north-west1601
subprincipal1601
southernly1610
north-westerly1611
easternly1614
northernly1632
westwardly1653
northwardly1654
north-easterly1686
southwardly1693
southwesterly1703
eastling1725
south-southeasterly1803
westland1818
south-southwesterly1822
north-western1829
north-north-easterly1831
southwesterly1883
nor-nor-east1891
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. ii This [elm] shields the other frae the eastlin blast.
?1786 R. Burns Poems (1801) 262 How do ye this blae eastlin win', That's like to blaw a body blin'.
1804 R. Couper Poems I. 37 Come, blythsom Spring! O haste and come, Unbar yon eastlin gate.
1885 J. Lumsden Rural Rhymes 91 Waesucks, thou wearie, eastlin' blast Frae ‘Lumsden's Hole’ that stormest stoure!
1902 Trans. Hawick Archaeol. Soc. 12 Old people invariably talked of..westlin and eastlin winds.
1990 J. A. Begg in J. A. Begg & J. Reid Dipper & Three Wee Deils 101 Ootby's a platform, cleanswept o fowk By the snell Eastlin win.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1725