the activity of dredging for, gathering, or raising oysters
the definitive history of oysters and oystering in Galway Bay
oystering in American English
(ˈɔistərɪŋ)
noun
1.
veneering of furniture with matched flitches having a figure of concentric rings
2.
flitches used on an oystered piece
Word origin
[1910–15; oyster + -ing1]This word is first recorded in the period 1910–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blackout, carbon cycle, coverage, insulin, zing-ing is a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or itsresult, product, material, etc. (the art of building; a new building; cotton wadding). It is also used to form nouns from words other than verbs (offing; shirting). Verbal nouns ending in -ing are often used attributively (the printing trade) and in forming compounds (drinking song). In some compounds (sewing machine), the first element might reasonably be regarded as the participial adjective, -ing, the compound thus meaning “a machine that sews,” but it is commonly taken as a verbalnoun, the compound being explained as “a machine for sewing”