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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I have no objection to the Democrats’ nominating an oysterman for a Senate seat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
And so the oysterman had the perfect foil.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2026
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
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 hatch was opened in a twinkling, and when we descended to the cuddy I was both surprised and overjoyed by seeing Robert Hanaford, an oysterman from St. Leonard's bay.
From Commodore Barney's Young Spies A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington by James Otis
Black men made up 60% of oystermen listed in an 1810 directory, working together with white oystermen as part of a prosperous local industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
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
UConn’s Sea Grant also helped keep oystermen afloat by hiring them to rehabilitate the state’s natural beds.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2021
They capture the culture of an essentially Southern agrarian community passing into history, a place where tobacco farmers and oystermen have given way to commuters and suburban tract housing.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2018
Of course, it must be some boat, possibly belonging to oystermen who plied their trade out on the bay, close to which they now found themselves.
From Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast or Through Storm and Stress to Florida by Louis Arundel
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