Definition of Easting:

part of speech: noun

Among seamen, the distance a ship makes good in an east direction; the East, eastern regions; Asiatic countries.

Usage 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 Robert Louis Stevenson in "Treasure Island".

• But such a calculation does not take into consideration the easting or westing of the ship itself. Ernest Gallaudet Draper in "Lectures in Navigation".

• Whether she was the Susan Tucker, or some other whaler, or a big South- Sea- man driven low and getting what easting she could out of the gale, I know not. W. Clark Russell in "The Frozen Pirate".

• The men now became more than ever discontented at the easterly course, and on May 1st, when he had come as far east as the Gulf of Darien, Columbus felt obliged to bear away to the north, although as it turned out he had not nearly made enough easting Filson Young in "Christopher Columbus, Volume 7 And The New World Of His Discovery, A Narrative".