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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GROATS, n. [See Grit.] Oats that have the hulls taken off.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n.pl. hulled or crushed grain, esp. oats. Etymology: OE grotan (pl.): cf. grot fragment, greot GRIT, grytt bran

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Groats Groats, n. pl. [OE. grot, AS. gr[=a]tan; akin to Icel. grautr porridge, and to E. gritt, grout. See Grout.] Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits. Embden groats, crushed oats.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. pl. Grits, hulled oats or hulled wheat.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To save his groats; to come off handsomely: at the universities, nine groats are deposited in the hands of an academic officer, by every person standing for a degree; which if the depositor obtains with honour, the groats are returned to him.