| 单词 | mussel-picker | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasmussel-picker   mussel-picker  n. 		 (a) British regional the European oystercatcher,  Haematopus ostralegus;		 (b) a person who collects mussels. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > 			[noun]		 > haematopus ostralegus (oystercatcher) olive1541 sea-pie1552 sea piet1710 oystercatcher1731 pianet1802 sea-magpie1805 shalder1828 musselcracker1845 oyster-bird1877 mussel pecker1885 mussel-picker1889 oyster-plover1890 sea-pilot1891 1889    H. Saunders Man. Brit. Birds 543  				A common name [for the Oyster-catcher] is ‘Sea Pie’..another equally appropriate term being ‘Mussel-picker’. 1899    J. Colville Sc. Vernacular 9  				The mussel scaups and lagoons, dear to..the mussel-picker and the whaup. 1958    S. Plath Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor 		(1981)	 97  				From what the crabs saw, If they could see, I was one Two-legged mussel-picker. 1997    Canad. Geogr. 		(Nexis)	 21 Nov. 26  				Once a hole has been chiselled through the snow and ice, the mussel pickers can climb through and get to work. < as lemmas  | 
	
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