noun
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a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters
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a boat used in gathering oysters
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Etymology
Origin of oysterman
Example Sentences
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Polls show her trailing Graham Platner, the tattooed oysterman endorsed by Bernie Sanders.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
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
"It's the same old shell-back, sir, only he's turned oysterman, bein' too stiff in the joints for much deep-sea work."
From Commodore Barney's Young Spies A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington by Otis, James
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