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Clam   /klæm/   Listen
Clam

noun
1.
Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness.
2.
A piece of paper money worth one dollar.  Synonyms: buck, dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill.
3.
Flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams.
verb
(past & past part. clammed; pres. part. clamming)
1.
Gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean.



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"Clam" Quotes from Famous Books



... assistance such a charity must largely depend. Strenuous appeals had been made, however: it was represented that ten thousand poor children could be transported to Nantasket Beach, and there, as one of the ladies on the committee said, bathed, clam-baked, and lemonaded three times during the summer at a cost so small that it was a saving to spend the money. Class Day falling about the same time, many exiles at Newport and on the North Shore ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells

... get over to Nantucket, would you be terribly disconcerted to discover some morning, down among the wharves there, with a copy of Moby Dick, and a distressed look from deciding whether breakfast should be of clam or ...
— Fate Knocks at the Door - A Novel • Will Levington Comfort

... boat. He wants to bring her safe into Clam Cove, he says, and then we'll anchor for the night. But he thought it best for us all to be dressed. The storm is worse than any of ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove • Laura Lee Hope

... servants, but it was of no avail. It was quite evident that his feelings were so wounded that he would not appear. Mr. Otis consequently resumed his great work on the history of the Democratic party, on which he had been engaged for some years; Mrs. Otis organized a wonderful clam-bake, which amazed the whole county; the boys took to lacrosse, euchre, poker, and other American national games, and Virginia rode about the lanes on her pony, accompanied by the young Duke of Cheshire, who had come to spend the last week of his holidays at Canterville Chase. It was generally assumed ...
— Humorous Ghost Stories • Dorothy Scarborough

... his arrival, they continued fighting without any visible plan, according to the expedients of the divisional generals. The particular expedient adopted by General Zedwitz was to withdraw 15,000 men, including six regiments of cavalry, from the field. At a critical moment, Count Clam Gallas had the misfortune to lose his artillery reserve, and sent everywhere to ask if anyone had seen it. The Prince of Hesse, acting without orders, or against orders, separated his division from Schwarzenberg's and brought it up at the nick of time ...
— The Liberation of Italy • Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco


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