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Definition of Oyster bed
1. Noun. A workplace where oysters are bred and grown.
Definition of Oyster bed
1. Noun. A place on the seabed where oysters are grown to be harvested ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oyster Bed
Literary usage of Oyster bed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The owner of an oyster bed is not only entitled to the oysters which he plants
... The statutes usually require one who claims an oyster bed to stake it off ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1884)
"The dredge is drawn slowly over the oyster bed for a certain time, ... There can
be no doubt that the great mass of oysters in an oyster bed may be removed ..."
3. The Law of Waters and Water Rights: International, National, State by Henry Philip Farnham (1904)
"But where the natural oyster bed- of the state had been determined and enumerated
in a statute enacted for that purpose, a person charged with having taken ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1909)
"1157), provides that grants by the register of the land office of any estate or
interest in any natural oyster bed, rock, or shoal, whether the same ebbed ..."
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