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Oystering :: Oystering (n.) Gathering, or dredging for, oysters..

Trillachan :: Trillachan (n.) The oyster catcher.

Sand :: Sand (v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.

Water Measure :: Water measure () A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel..

Milk :: Milk (n.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster..

Fierasfer :: Fierasfer (n.) A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian..

Roysterer :: Roysterer (n.) same as Roister, Roisterer..

Sandworm :: Sandworm (n.) Any species of annelids of the genus Sabellaria. They construct firm tubes of agglutinated sand on rocks and shells, and are sometimes destructive to oysters..

Cracker :: Cracker (n.) A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker..

Ostrea :: Ostrea (n.) A genus of bivalve Mollusca which includes the true oysters.

Set :: Set (n.) Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality..

Sedentary :: Sedentary (a.) Remaining in one place, especially when firmly attached to some object; as, the oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans..

Stewed :: Stew (n.) An artificial bed of oysters.

Unimuscular :: Unimuscular (a.) Having only one adductor muscle, and one muscular impression on each valve, as the oyster; monomyarian..

Inequivalvular :: Inequivalvular (a.) Having unequal valves, as the shell of an oyster..

Eye :: Eye (n.) The scar to which the adductor muscle is attached in oysters and other bivalve shells; also, the adductor muscle itself, esp. when used as food, as in the scallop..

Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of oysters.

Wash :: Wash (n.) Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters..

Olive :: Olive (n.) The oyster catcher.

Monomyaria :: Monomyaria (n.pl.) An order of lamellibranchs having but one muscle for closing the shell, as the oyster..

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