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Groats [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Oats that have the hulls taken off.

Groats [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits.

Groats-worth [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The value of a groat.