Dietitian says: A groat is the full oat kernel before it's smashed flat to make oatmeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

All this king's coins are very rare, except the groat, which is less rare than the others, some groats having lately been discovered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832] Reference

Take eggs, six in number, when bought for a groat.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Poetical Cook-Book] Reference

Alexander, King Alexander, give a poor Cynic a groat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of English Drama] Reference

For a groat, for a groat with goodwill I would sell her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

“I care not a groat for Master Tressilian,” he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenilworth] Reference

And may he never want a groat, that's fond o 'Tullochgorum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tullochgorum] Reference

"Pooh, a sorry groat!" said the keeper, "Make it two, and then!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Heiress of Haddon] Reference

Ay, leeks is good: hold you, there is a groat to heal your pate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of King Henry the Fifth] Reference

The half-groat and halfpenny scarce, the penny and farthing rare.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832] Reference

They'll daub you down and you must pay three pence or else a groat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handloom V. Powerloom] Reference

He must deal good strong strokes in battle, or he is not worth a groat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference

In this city I saw 300.li. of good and new ginger sold for lesse than a groat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Friar Odoric] Reference

All the learning you have, or ever can have, is not worth one groat without it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

A groat lie has been smashed: the lie that we would produce less sugar this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [NATIONAL PLENARY MEETING] Reference

I have taken a memorandum of it, because I never design to give him a groat more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal to Stella] Reference

He was a benign portly gent in executive rimless specs and looked worth a groat or two.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vatican Rip]

It was but a ring, with an emerald in it, that Bevis knew to be sham, and not worth a groat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burlesques] Reference

There we saw some pettifoggers and catchpoles, rogues that will hang their father for a groat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

Smiling, I got off the bus as soon as I saw an open nosh bar, and with my last groat had coffee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vatican Rip]

When I sealed up my letter this morning, I looked upon myself to be not worth a groat in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal to Stella] Reference

Four partriges are here solde for lesse than a groat In this countrey there are most comely olde men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Friar Odoric] Reference

The seeds are enclosed in a thin-walled, brown to black fibrous hulls that are removed at a groat mill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

He was there in an unbelievable space-age time of two minutes, and hurded off on payment of my last groat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great California Game]

If a man save not as he gets, he may keep his nose to the grindstone all his life, and die not worth a groat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference

"Here, here's a groat then," exclaimed the smith, bringing out his last coin as he saw the other moving away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heiress of Haddon] Reference

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone all his life, and die not worth a groat at last.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference

"A man may," if he knows not how to save as he goes "keep his nose all his life to the grindstone and die not worth a groat at last.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference

Cholmondly, and to Brooks himself, &c., neither of whom probably would have received a groat; but that matter is over for the present.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference

I wish it were in my power, my dear child, to give you some pledge of my gratitude, but I have nothing -- not so much as a single groat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference

Or what woman having ten groats, if she lose one groat, doth not light a candle and sweep the house and seek diligently until she find it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision] Reference