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oystering

oystering is the present participle and gerund of oyster.

Meaning of oyster

Verb

oyster (third-person singular simple present oysters, present participle oystering, simple past and past participle oystered)

  1. (intransitive) To fish for oysters.
    • Most Fishneck watermen oystered in winter, using the same small skiffs from which they potted crabs in summer. Sometimes two men oystered from the same boat or took along a son or younger brother to cull oysters (separate those of legal size from undersized ones and shell).1986, Carolyn Ellis, Fisher Folk: Two Communities on Chesapeake Bay, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 77

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Questions about oystering

What is oystering the present participle and gerund of?
Oystering is the present participle and gerund of oyster.

Words near oystering in the dictionary

  1. oysterers
  2. oysterfish
  3. oysterfishes
  4. oysterhood
  5. oysteries
  6. oystering
  7. oysterish
  8. oysterishness
  9. oysterleaf
  10. oysterless
  11. oysterlike

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