单词 | oyster dredger |
释义 | > as lemmasoyster dredger oyster dredger n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > for oysters oysterman1305 dredger?a1513 oyster dredger?a1513 waterman1549 oysterera1618 dredger-man1696 tonger1887 tongman1887 a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 208 Rank beggar, ostir dregar, foule fleggar in the flet. 1691 in F. G. Emmison Wills at Chelmsford (1958) II. 138 William Francis, oyster dredger, Tollesbury. 1723 London Gaz. No. 6196/8 Edmund North, late of Wakerin in Essex, Oyster-Drudger. 1853 E. Forbes & S. Hanley Hist. Brit. Mollusca II. 320 Irish oyster-dredgers have a notion that the more the banks are dredged, the more the oysters breed. 1986 News (Portsmouth) 11 Sept. 31/4 She started life as a racing smack, then became an oyster dredger. < as lemmas |
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