Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Groats

Groats , noun, plural

[Old English grot, Anglo-Saxon grātan; akin to Icelandic grautr porridge, and to English 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.
Collocations (1)
Embden groats , crushed oats.