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Dessert is honey poached Fantasia nectarines with almond shortcake and oat groat ice cream.
From the suntimes.com
However, in 1279, the groat, worth 4d was introduced, with the half groat following in 1344.
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Groat answered that the great ones never get in prolonged slumps.
From the post-gazette.com
Groat has been reminded of his obligations to report all outside employment per university policy.
From the dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com
A new Scottish currency-the groat, say-raises transaction costs.
From the economist.com
They would sell their own grandmothers for an extra groat.
From the independent.co.uk
Groat, who starred at Duke, later helped the Pittsburgh Pirates to the 1960 World Series in baseball.
From the newsobserver.com
Separation of the outer hull from the inner oat groat is effected by means of centripetal acceleration.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Groat has been named in a wrongful death suit stemming from an incident in 2005 when he was a Jefferson County deputy.
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- Fourpence: a former English silver coin worth four pennies
- (groats) the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals
- Groats are the hulled grains of various cereals, such as oats, wheat, barley or buckwheat (which is actually a pseudocereal). Groats from oats are a good source of avenanthramote.
- Groat is a surname, and may refer to: * Dick Groat (born 1930), a former two-sport athlete * Nikkie Groat (21st century), Miss Teen USA 2005 delegate
- (Groats) cereal seeds with hulls removed.
- (Groats) De-husked grain. Usually refers to oats, sometimes milled.
- A silver English coin, nominally worth 4 pence, current until 1662.
- To get the whistle of one's groat -- to play a losing game, to feel the consequences of one's folly.
- An old silver four-penny coin from around 1300 and in use in similar form until c.1662, although Brewer states in his late 1800s revised edition of his 1870 dictionary of slang that 'the modern groat was introduced in 1835, and withdrawn in 1887', which is somewhat confusing. ...
