Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of the oyster, Ostrea virginica, of large size and thick, rounded form.
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Examples
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The saddlerock of that time was nearly as large as a dinner-plate.
My Memories of Eighty Years Depew, Chauncey M 1922
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They had a good story of him at the Century Club, which is our Athenaeum, that when taken there after a lecture by his friends they gave him the usual Centurion supper of those days: saddlerock oysters.
My Memories of Eighty Years Depew, Chauncey M 1922
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The saddlerock of that time was nearly as large as
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Athenaeum, that when taken there after a lecture by his friends they gave him the usual Centurion supper of those days: saddlerock oysters.
hernesheir commented on the word saddlerock
A variety of oyster.
November 24, 2010