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noun Nautical.

the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.

the passage eastward from Australia, as made by a sailing ship bound for Cape Horn.

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How to use easting down in a sentence

Then came the day, when, steering east by south, they started to “run their easting down.”
The Viking Blood|Frederick William Wallace
It was intensely monotonous and the adventurous spells were only occasional, like the time we ran the easting down the Horn.
The Viking Blood|Frederick William Wallace