groats

«groats» in Mova's school dictionary: Hulled grain, such as oats, crushed and cooked as porridge — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (plural only)

meaning for a pupil

1) Hulled grain, such as oats, crushed and cooked as porridge. (old use) tree →

2) An old English coin worth four pence. (old use) tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales, groats are grain for food or old coins paid as money

examples

• She made groats for breakfast. tree →
• Jan carried a bag of groats home. tree →
• Long ago, a groat was a coin worth four pence. tree →

note

if groats are coins, each groat is worth 4 pence, so multiply the number of groats by 4; if they are grain, nothing for maths

In the corpora

• And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed groats thereon; and nothing was known.
• Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «groats» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.