| 单词 | oyster planter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoyster planter 6. U.S. regional (chiefly eastern). In full oyster planter. A person who establishes, owns, or maintains oyster beds. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > breeding oysters > oyster-breeder oysterman1305 planter1855 ostreiculturist1866 oyster farmer1866 oyster culturist1882 1855 N.-Y. Daily Times 23 Jan. 2/6 The oyster catchers have been arrested by the oyster planters, and the lawyers are going to make money out of both parties. 1878 St. Joseph (Mich.) Traveler-Herald 23 Mar. The legal right of an oyster planter to the ground he cultivates and the crop he produces should be put beyond dispute. 1892 Law Times 92 177/2 Mr. Williamson, a very large oyster planter and dealer in oysters. 1941 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 24 Apr. 13/2 Mr. Winant's father's father was an oyster planter, out along the Jersey shore of the bay. 1991 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 Apr. b4 He was born in Snow Hill on Maryland's Eastern Shore, where his family had been oyster planters, hauling oysters from the James River to Chincoteague Bay. 2003 Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch (Nexis) 6 Dec. a9 My grandfather was a farmer and oyster planter. < as lemmas |
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