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sea pies

sea pies is the plural of sea pie.

Meaning of sea pie

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

Questions about sea pies

What is sea pies the plural of?
Sea pies is the plural of sea pie.

Words near sea pies in the dictionary

  1. sea pickle
  2. sea pickles
  3. sea pie
  4. sea piece
  5. sea pieces
  6. sea pies
  7. sea pig
  8. sea pigeon
  9. sea pigeons
  10. sea pigs
  11. sea pike

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