pye

American  

[pahy] / paɪ /

noun

Ecclesiastical.

1. a variant of pie.

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pye British  

/ paɪ /

noun

1. a variant spelling of pie 5

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Etymology

Origin of pye

First recorded in 1530–40

Example Sentences

And ther be now a daies whych eyther for a lytle money, or for theyr plesure take almost more payne in teachyng a pye or a popiniay.

From The Education of Children by Sherry, Richard

You'd have to mortgage everything to pye the fines.

From Trusia A Princess of Krovitch by Brinton, Davis

Then I hyed me into Est-Chepe; One cryes rybbs of befe, and many a pye: Pewter pottes they clattered on a heape; There was harpe, pype, and mynstralsye.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

According to the former of these gentlemen, who graduated in 1746, the "breakfast was two sizings of bread and a cue of beer"; and "evening commons were a pye."

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer

We had a large company to dinner, and I got some wheat flower and made a fine chicken pye.

From Spinning-Wheel Stories by Alcott, Louisa May