noun
definition
(chiefly in the plural) Hulled grain.
Examples of groat in a Sentence
From 1279 there was a new coinage which included the first groat or fourpence.
Descendants of the Groot family, now Groat, still live in the neighbourhood.
Considering the amount of time he seems to spend jetting around the world saving souls, he must have the odd groat to spare.
A silver groat of James V Open The bawbee had been introduced by Mary's father, James V, in 1538.
I wouldn't bet you a single groat that you can survive five minutes here without me.
The half groat was minted in Canterbury, the other coins London.
In these every colour and every shade of colour seem to have been tried in groat variety of combination with effects more or less pleasing, but transparent violet or purple appears to have been the most common ground colour.
Being but a few miles south of Dunnet Head, John o' Groat's is a colloquial term for the most northerly point of Scotland.
The cowry-shell, Cypraca europaea, is locally known as "John o' Groat's bucky."
On the arrival of the parliamentary forces soon afterwards in Oxford he secreted the Christ Church valuables, and the soldiers found nothing in the treasury "except a single groat and a halter in the bottom of a large iron chest."
He was not rich, but would spend his last groat to be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many pleasures than allow himself to be seen in a shabby equipage or appear in the streets of Petersburg in an old uniform.
This process keeps the natural nutrients and components of the oat groat pure.