oysterman

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Examples

• 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.

• "Now Jim," expostulated the Oysterman, and yet evidently regarding his comrade's words as a compliment.