Meaning of sea pie | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A dish of crust or pastry with meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, once a common food of sailors.
   countable, uncountable
2. 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).
   archaic

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Examples

“[L]ast of all, a prodigious sea-pye was presented, with an infinite volume of pancakes and fritters.”

“In the West Bay we had pretty good sport among the sea pies and shaggs […] .”

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