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Oyster bed   /ˈɔɪstər bɛd/   Listen
Oyster bed

noun
1.
A workplace where oysters are bred and grown.  Synonyms: oyster bank, oyster park.






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"Oyster bed" Quotes from Famous Books



... we may understand that Wellfleet oysters, which have been celebrated in the English markets for between three and four hundred years, might easily have led the settlers of Nawsett to believe that at Billinsgate, they had a new Wallfleet Oyster bed. The fact that Wallfleet oysters were marketed at Billinsgate, always the big fish market of the Londoners, and that our Wellfleet was at first known as Billingsgate, seems more than a ...
— Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, June 1922, Volume 6, Number 4 • Various

... governess to the two small offspring of Mrs. Arnold Laney, an opulent, hard-finished lady who cleverly found the one pearl in the oyster bed, meaning me, this morning. I dashed thankfully home and almost jolted Mrs. Mussel out of her gloom, bought two gingham dresses for mornings and hied me to my new home. I have a cot in the nursery and ...
— Jane Journeys On • Ruth Comfort Mitchell



Words linked to "Oyster bed" :   work, workplace, oyster bank, oyster park



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