groats Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals
  2. noun a former English silver coin worth four pennies
    fourpence; groat.

WordNet

Groats noun plural
Etymology
OE. grot, AS. gratan; akin to Icel. grautr porridge, and to E. gritt, grout. See Grout.
Definitions
  1. Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits.

Webster 1913