Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One whose occupation is the catching of oysters with tongs.
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Examples
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Two women, who have secrets between them, love to prattle together; this attracted them towards each other, and Theresa, by dividing herself, sometimes let me feet I was alone; for I could no tonger consider as a society that which we all three formed.
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