Definition of "mussel-bed" []

• A bed or repository of mussels. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "We were waiting for the tide to fall, to go out to the mussel-bed."
• "The village seemed peopled with women, sexless creatures for the most part, whom toil and the life on the mussel-bed or in the field had dried and hardened into mummy shapes."
• "Our visit to the mussel-bed, as we soon found, had been our formal introduction to the village."