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oysterman

n. 1 A person who cultivates, harvests or sells oysters 2 (context nautical English) A boat used to dredge for oysters

Usage examples of "oysterman".

Two days afterward a negro oysterman came up from Indian River with news that the pirates were lying off the inlet, bringing ashore bales of goods from their larger vessel and piling the same upon the beach under tarpaulins.

Willa Harris was dazzling her oysterman brother and almost-scientist sister with her knowledge of cetaceans.

The fellow who generally relieved him at six, an American Legionnaire and retired oysterman named Bill McWilliams, always took the stairs up from the quarters on eighty-one.

This time Tedi and Edward brought down an oysterman from the Chesapeake Bay who shucked oysters right out of an ice-crammed barrel.

I aim to trounce the local oystermen in the regatta, Elliott said, hooking his thumbs into his white gallowses.

Lily Rigby that he came from a long line of oystermen on Chesapeake Bay.

Some oystermen found the empress mother out in the gulf, swimming for her life.