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• a variation of pie.

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

Some have got little brass-kettles; and those who have not, make one of a flat stone, with sides of clay, not unlike a standing pye.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert

I left a man in London, when I came away, with a commission to see that justice was done me, and to send my pye, if I should have one, into Kent.

From George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by Roscoe, E. S.

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

A "flesh pye," as she termed it, was drawn from its lair—a dark hole used as a cupboard—and set before the guests.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by Roby, John

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