Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hastings \Has"tings\, n. pl. [From {Haste}, v.]
   Early fruit or vegetables; especially, early pease.
   --Mortimer.

Source : WordNet®

Hastings
     n 1: United States architect who formed and important
          architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929)
          [syn: {Thomas Hastings}]
     2: a town in East Sussex just south of the place where the
        Battle of Hastings took place
     3: 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 [syn: {battle
        of Hastings}]