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sea pie

sea pie noun: a dish of crust or pastry with meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, once a common food of sailors.

Noun (1)

sea pie (countable and uncountable, plural sea pies)

  1. A dish of crust or pastry with meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, once a common food of sailors.
    • [L]ast of all, a prodigious sea-pye was presented, with an infinite volume of pancakes and fritters.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC

Noun (2)

sea pie (plural sea pies)

  1. (archaic) The oystercatcher (any of several black or pied coastal wading birds in the genus Haematopus that have a long red or orange bill and feed on shellfish).
    • In the West Bay we had pretty good sport among the sea pies and shaggs […] .1773, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 24 May

Forms of sea pie

pluralsea pies
alternative formsea pye

Origin of sea pie

From sea + pie (“a type of pastry”).

From sea + pie (“magpie”).

Questions about sea pie

What does sea pie mean?
Sea pie means a dish of crust or pastry with meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, once a common food of sailors.
What part of speech is sea pie?
Sea pie is a noun.
What is the plural of sea pie?
The plural of sea pie is sea pies.

Words near sea pie in the dictionary

  1. sea perches
  2. sea pheasant
  3. sea pheasants
  4. sea pickle
  5. sea pickles
  6. sea pie
  7. sea piece
  8. sea pieces
  9. sea pies
  10. sea pig
  11. sea pigeon

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