sea-pie

A form of sea pie — 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

nounsea-pie (plural sea-pies)

plural sea-pies

  1. alternativeAlternative form of sea pie (“food”).
  2. alternativeAlternative form of sea pie (“bird”).

    And the terns hovered over Tom like huge white dragon-flies with black heads, and the gulls laughed like girls at play, and the sea-pies, with their red bills and legs, flew to and fro from shore to shore, and whistled sweet and wild.

    1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby

Synonyms & antonyms

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APA

sea-pie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sea-pie

MLA

“sea-pie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sea-pie. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sea-pie,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sea-pie.

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