The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sea pie \Sea" pie\ (s[=e]" p[imac]`). (Zo["o]l.) The oyster catcher, a limicoline bird of the genus H[ae]matopus.
Sea pie \Sea" pie`\ A dish of crust or pastry and meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, -- a common food of sailors; as, a three-decker sea pie.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A dish of crust or pastry with meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, once a common food of sailors. Etymology 2
alt. (context archaic English) 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. n. (context archaic English) 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.
Usage examples of "sea pie".
Hornblower found himself shovelling sea pie into his mouth as if the faster he ate it the faster the despatches would come.
Captain Aubrey's voice, though well calculated to carry from one end of a ship to another in a gale, was less suited to the confidential domestic whisper, and at intervals in Mrs Williams's stream of words his deep rumble could be heard, not perhaps quite as good-humoured as once it was, expostulating about a fair-sized piece of ham that could be dressed, a sea pie that could be knocked up in a moment.