The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hastings \Has"tings\ (-t[i^]ngz), n. pl. [From Haste, v.]
   Early fruit or vegetables; especially, early pease.
   --Mortimer.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Hastings
    n 1: United States architect who formed and important
         architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929)
         [syn: Hastings, Thomas Hastings]
    2: a town in East Sussex just to the 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: Hastings,
       battle of Hastings]