单词 | oyster ground |
释义 | > as lemmasoyster ground oyster ground n. ΚΠ 1659 Particular Advice from Office of Intelligence No. 22. 299 (advt.) In the Parish of Up Church 6 miles beyond Rochester in Kent are 334 Acres of Marish ground..there are Oyster grounds and fishings, belonging to the Marish. 1755 Philos. Trans. 1754 (Royal Soc.) 48 628 I hir'd a fisherman, the next day, to take up some oysters from an old oyster-ground, that had been long disus'd, lying about three or four leagues off to sea. 1834 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 124 366 Repeated endeavours to get them, through fishermen, from rocks at sea, or from oyster-grounds were unsuccessful. 1977 J. R. L. Anderson Death in City (1980) (BNC) 110 Those creeks on Winter Marsh are about the best oyster grounds in Europe! < as lemmas |
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