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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
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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