sea pie

noun

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

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Meanings

sea pie1

nounsea pie (countable and uncountable, plural sea pies)

plural sea pies

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

    [L]ast of all, a prodigious sea-pye was presented, with an infinite volume of pancakes and fritters.

    1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC

sea pie2

nounsea pie (plural sea pies)

plural sea pies · alternative sea pye

  1. archaicThe 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).

    In the West Bay we had pretty good sport among the sea pies and shaggs […] .

    1773, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 24 May

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
sea-magpie

Origin

sea pie · noun

From sea + pie (“a type of pastry”).

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sea pie · noun

From sea + pie (“magpie”).

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Translations

French (Quebecois) cipaille
  • (Quebecois) cipailledish of crust or pastry with meat or fish
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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sea pie,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sea%20pie.

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