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groat
[ groht ]
noun
- a silver coin of England, equal to four pennies, issued from 1279 to 1662.
groat
/ ɡrəʊt /
noun
- an English silver coin worth four pennies, taken out of circulation in the 17th century
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of groat1
Example Sentences
The company suggests using oat groats much as you would any other whole, chewy grain, such as rice — in grain bowls, stews and salads, for example.
These are oat groats that have been cut into several pieces for slightly quicker cooking, 20 to 30 minutes on the stovetop.
But one that stood by whispered in my ear that the Bishopp himself do not spend one groat to the poor himself.
He was a younger son of a good family; had good blood in his veins, though not a groat in his pockets.
For the woman that had lost her groat, and sought it with a light; unless she had remembered it, she had never found it.
Descendants of the Groot family, now Groat, still live in the neighbourhood.
One of them carried a young bittern which they had caught upon the moor, and they offered it to Alleyne for a silver groat.
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