oystermen
- plural of oysterman.
Example Sentences
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Born about 1772, enslaved as a child and then set free by a family of German American potters, Mr. Commeraw began designing ceramics in the 1790s, including food storage vessels for oystermen and innkeepers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
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
These, however, were the aristocrats of my practice; the bulk of my patients were soap-fat-men, rag-pickers, oystermen, hose-house bummers, and worse, with other and nameless trades, men and women, white, black, or mulatto.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various
