oystre

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A form of oyster — Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.

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Meanings

nounoystre (plural oystres)

plural oystres

  1. obsoleterareObsolete form of oyster.

    pickled oystres a barrell ... 1s. 6d.

    1626, Sir Edward Dering, quoted in "Bill of Fare of 1626", Notes and Queries (14 December 1815), page 99
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    Oystres, some very great and some small, some round and some of a long shape .

    1585, Thomas Harriot, quoted in Steve Nicholls, Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery, University of Chicago Press →ISBN, page 73

    Well could he talke of fasting and penaunce To Maides, between the figures of the daunce ; And from the hollow world within the cloistre Threaten to shut himself, as in an oystre.

    1851, Punch, volume XX, page 230

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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