n. A person who cultivates, harvests or sells oysters
n. A boat used to dredge for oysters
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A man engaged in rearing, taking, or selling oysters; an oysterer.
Word Usage
"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."