Definition of "oysterman" []

• One who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters. (noun)
• Nautical An oyster-dredging vessel. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "BP, with all its resources, and its ability to make money hand over fist, can come back, but a small-businesswoman or an oysterman who has lost a year's worth of customers and income cannot."
• "Everybody   who   does   this   job   has an epiphany   moment,   says   Brett Bishop, the fifth generation of his family to work the Little Skookum inlet, an oysterman in arguably America's greatest oyster grounds, Washington's South Puget Sound."
• "It's a joke, says Campo, a third-generation oysterman."