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 9780226583426), 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.

Middle English

Noun

oystre (plural oystres)

1. oyster

Descendants

• English: oyster