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
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The oysterman and former Marine who bested a popular governor and built a grass-roots network of more than 15,000 supporters in Maine announced he was suspending his campaign on Wednesday night.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Senate, the gruff oysterman opened with a joke.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Racicot’s story was included in a New York Times report in which former romantic partners of Platner’s recounted “unsettling” behavior from the veteran and oysterman.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
The octogenarian oysterman is a Wellfleeter of the oldest stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
"There's no reason why they shouldn't go with us; six isn't any too many for the crew of an oysterman."
From Commodore Barney's Young Spies A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington by Otis, James
That’s a systemic problem, noted Deni Henson, who grew up here in the 1960s, when the town of 41,000 was low-key and working-class, home to oystermen and crabbers.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2022
There was a guy named John Sherwood who would ply the Chesapeake Bay in his sloop and find these islands where the oystermen still spoke almost in Elizabethan dialect, and write these rhapsodic pictures.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2022
That has meant cleaner water and far fewer days that oystermen have had to suspend operations because of high bacteria counts.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2021
Many oystermen are not so upset about the closure now as they are that it did not happen sooner.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 8, 2020
Anna’s pocket-money, stored up to be spent once-a-year in New York, came to her hands by the sale of butter to oystermen; and the calf, Snow, was the exclusive property of her brother Valentine.
From The Only Woman in the Town And Other Tales of the American Revolution by Prichard, Sarah J.
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