sea pie

See also: sea-pie

English

Etymology 1

From sea +‎ pie (“a type of pastry”).

Noun

sea pie (countable and uncountable, plural sea pies)

1. A dish of crust or pastry with meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, once a common food of sailors.
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

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

Translations

dish of crust or pastry with meat or fish

• French: (Quebecois) cipaille (fr) m

Etymology 2

From sea +‎ pie (“magpie”).

Alternative forms

• sea pye

Noun

sea pie (plural sea pies)

1. (archaic) The 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).
   • 1773, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 24 May:

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