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Definition of Oyster bank
1. Noun. A workplace where oysters are bred and grown.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oyster Bank
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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