“These four regions divide the CBC plots into approximately equal samples around easting 45 and northing 21 of the U.K. national grid.”
“At this time we began to prepare for the heavy weather of our easting, as the run across the Indian Ocean is called.”
“And yet here you are, with all the stuff of the sea in you, running down your easting for port.”
east
One of the four principal compass points, specifically 90°, conventionally directed to the right on maps; the direction of the rising sun at an equinox. Abbreviated as E.
“He was an easterner who traveled in the West and, through his illustrations, defined it for Americans and for the world.”
“I do not know how a modern ad agency would choose to create a visual image of the typical easterner, but the stereotype will not be holding a fly rod or wearing skis.”
“In an instant it was all over, but in that instant the easterner had lived years.”
“Norths and Easts were forced to endure their second washout in three weeks and will be keen to get some game time in coming weeks.”
“Easts wicket keeper Dale Box did well with the gloves, stumping two batsmen, one off the bowling of Jobson and another off David Wells.”
“Fearnley played 139 matches for Eastern Suburbs between 195455 and 195764, and coached at the Easts, Parramatta, Western Suburbs, Cronulla and Illawarra.”