Hypertext Webster Gateway: "groats"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
groats
n : the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals
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