Definition of Oystering

1. n. Gathering, or dredging for, oysters.

Definition of Oystering

1. Verb. (present participle of oyster) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Oystering

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oystering

oyster plant
oyster sauce
oyster shell
oyster shooter
oyster stew
oyster stuffing
oysterbed
oysterbeds
oystercatcher
oystercatchers
oystered
oysterer
oysterers
oysterfish
oystergreen
oystering (current term)
oysterings
oysterless
oysterlike
oysterling
oysterlings
oysterman
oystermen
oysterplant
oysters
oysters Rockefeller
oystre
oystrige
oystriges
oz

Literary usage of Oystering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the Department of Labor by United States Dept. of Labor (1901)
"He probably makes $250 a year oystering. The other man owns 23 acres of land, ... With a good season he might easily make $500 a year from oystering. ..."

2. Report on the Ship-building Industry of the United States by Henry Hall (1884)
"A good year in oystering is always followed by a busy year in the building of these handy and serviceable boats in New Jersey. During 1881 there were being ..."

3. Liberty and a Living: The Record of an Attempt to Secure Bread and Butter by Philip Gengembre Hubert (1889)
"Wrote from ten to twelve, intending to go oystering in the afternoon with the children. After lunch it was blowing great guns on the bay, the white caps in ..."

4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1855)
"In the sounds and surf they attain masterly insight into vessel-building, navigation, wrecking, and oystering, and along the roads the art of driving the ..."

5. George Palmer Putnam: A Memoir, Together with a Record of the Earlier Years by George Haven Putnam (1912)
"The main occupation of the dwellers on Five Mile River was oystering. ... Boating, fishing, and oystering were the amusements of the boys, ..."

6. Ole Mars An' Ole Miss: By Edmund K. Goldsborough by Edmund K. Goldsborough (1900)
"The weather was not very cold and he assumed they were oystering, ... Caesar was fond of 'possum, and returning from oystering hungry and tired, ..."

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