Definition of Oyster bank

1. Noun. A workplace where oysters are bred and grown.

Exact synonyms: Oyster Bed, Oyster Park
Generic synonyms: Work, Workplace

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oyster Bank

oyez
oyezes
oyl
oylet
oylets
oynoun
oynouns
oyrur
oys
oyster
oyster-fish
oyster Rockefeller
oyster agaric
oyster ball
oyster bank (current term)
oyster bar
oyster bed
oyster beds
oyster catcher
oyster crab
oyster cracker
oyster crackers
oyster dressing
oyster drill
oyster drills
oyster farm
oyster farms
oyster fish
oyster fungus

Literary usage of Oyster bank

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

1. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1849)
"The second stratum in which shells are found, rests immediately on the oyster bank, being separated from it in some places by a stratum of serpula, ..."

2. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1630-1877: With a Genealogical Register by Lucius Robinson Paige (1877)
"In the impaled land, the principal highway was the " highway to the oyster bank," or the " highway into the neck," extending through Arrow Street, ..."

3. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1872)
"As the Quickstep neared the oyster bank Buoy she sent up a square- headed topsail, and after gybing round set her spinnaker for the run to Carrick Buoy. ..."

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