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Clamshell   /klˈæmʃˌɛl/   Listen
Clamshell

noun
1.
The shell of a clam.
2.
A dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam.  Synonym: grapple.






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"Clamshell" Quotes from Famous Books



... that day and the next. He dressed the game with an extraordinarily large and sharp clamshell, which he whetted from time to time on a rock beside the spring. And soon the fire was overhung with much meat, being smoked with a pine-cone smudge in preparation for the journey ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England



Words linked to "Clamshell" :   grapple, dredging bucket, shell



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