sea pie
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See also: sea-pie
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
sea + pie (“a type of pastry”)
Noun[edit]
sea pie (countable and uncountable, plural sea pies)
- A dish of crust or pastry with meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, once a common food of sailors.
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- [L]ast of all, a prodigious sea-pye was presented, with an infinite volume of pancakes and fritters.
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Etymology 2[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
- (archaic) The oystercatcher (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).
- 1773, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 24 May:
- In the West Bay we had pretty good sport among the sea pies and shaggs […] .
- 1773, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 24 May: