Crossword clues for groats
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Groats \Groats\, n. pl. [OE. grot, AS. gr[=a]tan; akin to Icel. grautr porridge, and to E. gritt, grout. See Grout.] Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits.
Embden groats, crushed oats.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"hulled grain coarsely ground or crushed; oatmeal," early 14c., from grot "piece, fragment," from Old English grot "particle," from same root as grit. The word also meant "excrement in pellets" (mid-15c.).
Wiktionary
n. (plural of groat English)
WordNet
n. the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals
Usage examples of "groats".
He that his hand will put in this mittain, He shall have multiplying of his grain, When he hath sowen, be it wheat or oats, So that he offer pence, or elles groats.
Man, I kenned your gudesire well, and many a pouchful of groats I had from him when I was a laddie.
In this obvious spot, the small circle of colored groats was laid out on the ground for the oath-making couple, surrounded by a multipointed star for the principal witnesses.