noun
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a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters
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a boat used in gathering oysters
Etymology
Origin of oysterman
Example Sentences
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She will face Maine’s current governor or a flamboyant and controversial oysterman.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026
The hospitality sector was "struggling" and the oysterman said his customers were not selling the same volumes of oysters in the past year.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025
The brothers Albert and Anthony Brown, owned by a Virginia oysterman, appropriated one of his boats and sailed up Chesapeake Bay until headwinds forced them to make landfall just north of Baltimore.
From Slate • Sep. 3, 2015
"The approach of an oysterman is to create smaller diversions that replicate the way it used to be -- not these big major diversions that change the environment," he said.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2012
While the oysterman was speaking, a little boy came along, piteously crying.
From Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance by Coffin, Charles Carleton
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