oysterman
noun
a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
oystermen
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pluralof oysterman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
