sea pie

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English

Etymology 1

From sea +‎ pie (a type of pastry).

Noun

sea pie (countable and uncountable, plural sea pies)

  1. A dish of crust or pastry with meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, once a common food of sailors.
Translations

Etymology 2

From sea +‎ pie (magpie).

Alternative forms

Noun

sea pie (plural sea pies)

  1. (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 .