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noun
A dish of crust or pastry with meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, once a common food of sailors.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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History
From sea + pie (“a type of pastry”).
From sea + pie (“magpie”).
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