oysterman

It was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side; His shop was just upon the bank, his boat was on the tide.

Mark how the oysterman's thin blade insinuates itself,—how gently at first, how strenuously when once fairly between the shells!

He was an old Wellfleet oysterman, who had acquired a competency in that business, and had sons still engaged in it.

The old oysterman, speaking of gull-shooting, had said that you must aim under, when firing down the bank.