Definition of "pie"

SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently.TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie,Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.

c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iii]

It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead. But when the pie is shrinking, social groups are more likely to turn on each other.

2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “Why It’s Time to Worry”, in Newsweek‎

Pies are best for comparing the components of only one or two totals.

1986, Carolyn Sorensen, Henry J. Stock, Department of Education Computer Graphics Guide, page 8

"Yeah, take it off!" "SHOW US YOUR PIE!" The brunette opened the catch on her G-string and let the sequinned cloth slip down, teasing them with it.

1981, William Kotzwinkle, Jack in the Box

Yeah, some guys like to eat the old hairy pie. Women, too, or so I've heard.

2010, W. A. Moltinghorne, Magnolia Park, page 238

I gave him all the money in my possession, Rs.9.8.5. – nine rupees, eight annas, and five pie – for I always keep small change as bakshish when I am in camp.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes”, in The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society, published 2005, page 117

The door of the [printing] shop was shattered. He went in. The presses were broken. The type pied.

1943, Esther Forbes Hoskins, Johnny Tremain