groat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of groat
1325–75; Middle English groot < Middle Dutch groot large, name of a large coin; see great
Vocabulary lists containing groat
Example Sentences
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Major ingredients: Filtered water, organic oat groats, oat bran Dietitian says: A groat is the full oat kernel before it's smashed flat to make oatmeal.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2010
Elsewise he would never see a groat of his money.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
“Oh, every penny... but never a groat more, my lord. You’ll get the meal you bargained for, but it won’t be sauced with gratitude, and in the end it will not nourish you.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Although frequently referred to as a groat, it had no other official designation than a “fourpenny piece.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
In pretty good case and very well found, By night and by day we carry him round: He must go for a groat, if we can't get a pound.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Philip Freneau
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