Definition of Oyster bed

1. Noun. A workplace where oysters are bred and grown.

Exact synonyms: Oyster Bank, Oyster Park
Generic synonyms: Work, Workplace

Definition of Oyster bed

1. Noun. A place on the seabed where oysters are grown to be harvested ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oyster Bed

oyl
oylet
oylets
oynoun
oynouns
oyrur
oys
oyster
oyster-fish
oyster Rockefeller
oyster agaric
oyster ball
oyster bank
oyster bar
oyster bed (current term)
oyster beds
oyster catcher
oyster crab
oyster cracker
oyster crackers
oyster dressing
oyster drill
oyster drills
oyster farm
oyster farms
oyster fish
oyster fungus
oyster mushroom
oyster mushrooms

Literary usage of Oyster bed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The owner of an oyster bed is not only entitled to the oysters which he plants ... The statutes usually require one who claims an oyster bed to stake it off ..."

2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1884)
"The dredge is drawn slowly over the oyster bed for a certain time, ... There can be no doubt that the great mass of oysters in an oyster bed may be removed ..."

3. The Law of Waters and Water Rights: International, National, State by Henry Philip Farnham (1904)
"But where the natural oyster bed- of the state had been determined and enumerated in a statute enacted for that purpose, a person charged with having taken ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1909)
"1157), provides that grants by the register of the land office of any estate or interest in any natural oyster bed, rock, or shoal, whether the same ebbed ..."

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