oystre

English

Noun

oystre (plural oystres)

1. (rare) Obsolete form of oyster.
   • 1585, Thomas Harriot, quoted in Steve Nicholls, Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery, University of Chicago Press →ISBN, page 73

     Oystres, some very great and some small, some round and some of a long shape .

   • 1626, Sir Edward Dering, quoted in "Bill of Fare of 1626", Notes and Queries (14 December 1815), page 99

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

   • 1851, Punch, volume XX, page 230:

     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.

Anagrams

• Oyster, Storey, Troyes, oyster, storey, toyers, tyroes

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ostre, ostree, oistre, oystur, oystere, ostyr, oister, oyestere

Etymology

From three separate sources: Old English oster, Anglo-Norman oistre, and Latin ostrea, which the other two are ultimately from. The Latin is from Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔi̯stər/, /ˈɔi̯strə/, /ˈɔstər/, /ˈɔstreː(ə)/

Noun

oystre (plural oystres or oystryn)

1. An oyster or a similar shellfish.

Descendants

• English: oyster
• Scots: oyster, eyster

References

• “oistre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-30.