From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgroatgroat /ɡrəʊt $ ɡroʊt/ noun [countable]PEC a former British coin that had a low value
Examples from the Corpus
groat• Back in the days when a groat and a half, etc.• The soup was a mash of wheatmeal flour and groats.• They had cooked groats for supper.• He and his fellow inmates were fed three times a week with half-cooked groats and had very little water to drink.• Nora makes a supper of groats and curly kale.• It seemed to me that I smelled groats and mushrooms cooking.• Though the groats had been well covered with gravy, I ate without tasting their flavor.• But one thing is sure, warm groats are better than cold ones. 