Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Hulled, usually crushed grain, especially oats.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Oats or wheat from which the hull or outer coating has been removed and which is then crushed or used whole. Compare
grit , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits.
- noun plural crushed oats.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
groat .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Intact seeds with the hull removed are called groats.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Intact seeds with the hull removed are called groats.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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COOK NOTE: Buckwheat, also called groats or kasha, is a member of the grass family, not a part of wheat.
Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987
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COOK NOTE: Buckwheat, also called groats or kasha, is a member of the grass family, not a part of wheat.
Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987
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COOK NOTE: Buckwheat, also called groats or kasha, is a member of the grass family, not a part of wheat.
Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987
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COOK NOTE: Buckwheat, also called groats or kasha, is a member of the grass family, not a part of wheat.
Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987
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COOK NOTE: Buckwheat, also called groats or kasha, is a member of the grass family, not a part of wheat.
Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987
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Into it he pushed five fourpenny pieces, then called groats, and very commonly current.
All's Well Alice's Victory Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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The other of one that got a way of coyning money as good and passable and large as the true money is, and yet saved fifty per cent. to himself, which was by getting moulds made to stamp groats like old groats, which is done so well, and I did beg two of them which
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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The other of one that got a way of coyning money as good and passable and large as the true money is, and yet saved fifty per cent. to himself, which was by getting moulds made to stamp groats like old groats, which is done so well, and I did beg two of them which
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
reesetee commented on the word groats
hulled kernels of oats, buckwheat, or barley.
February 23, 2007