hastings Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun United States architect who formed and important architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929)
    Thomas Hastings.
  2. noun a town in East Sussex just to the south of the place where the battle of Hastings took place
  3. noun the decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest
    battle of Hastings.

WordNet

Has"tings noun plural
Etymology
From Haste, v.
Definitions
  1. Early fruit or vegetables; especially, early pease. Mortimer.

Webster 1913