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a1605 J. Davis in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) I. iv. vi. 445 In these parts, betweene the Tropickes I meane, it [sc. the variation] keepeth no method in Easting or Westing, as it doth without them.

1685 B. Ringrose Bucaniers Amer. iv. xxiv. 200 My whole Easting I reckoned to be now, six hundred seventy seven leagues and one third of a league.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 167 Without haling in for the main to secure our easting.

1782 C. Blagden in Philos. Trans. 1781 (Royal Soc.) 71 339 We..made some easting to keep clear of the dangerous shoals.

1802 J. Playfair Illustr. Huttonian Theory 230 To compute from the observed bearings the amount of all the..easting or westing.

1860 L. Bilton in Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 289 I ran down my easting in 38° S.

1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 539 In Maine the courses [of the rock-groovings] have an unusual amount of easting.

1934 A. H. R. Goldie Abercromby's Weather (rev. ed.) viii. 134 We should have to make 240 miles of southing and 135° of easting to follow the isotherm of 60°.

1973 P. O'Brian H.M.S. Surprise vi. 136 In the meantime the Surprise must run down far to the south of Africa..make her easting, and so northwards.

2002 S. Apollonio Last of Cape Horners iii. 56 The gales and hurricane winds of the roaring forties, the high latitudes where the ships made their easting or westing around the world.