Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The surf-clam, Mactra solidissima, a large heavy bivalve, used for food, sharing with some others the names of hen-clam., round clam, etc.
- noun A clam, clamp, or forceps closed by a weight, for use with deep-sea sounding-lines.
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Examples
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There were a couple of wicker chairs with soiled, makeshift pillows and a rusted tray table that held a sea-clam shell overflowing with cigarette butts.
Some Assembly Required Lynn Kiele Bonasia 2008
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Our host told us that the sea-clam, or hen, was not easily obtained; it was raked up, but never on the Atlantic side, only cast ashore there in small quantities in storms.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various
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They don't know how long I've been countin 'on a sea-clam pie.
Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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He looked as if he sometimes saw a doughnut, but never descended to comfort; too grave to laugh, too tough to cry; as indifferent as a clam, -- like a sea-clam with hat on and legs, that was out walking the strand.
Cape Cod 1865
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(Also, see Thomas Morton's New English Canaan, page 90.) Our host told us that the sea-clam, or hen, was not easily obtained; it was raked up, but never on the Atlantic side, only cast ashore there in small quantities in storms.
Cape Cod 1865
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He also told us that the clam which I had was the sea-clam, or hen, and was good to eat.
Cape Cod 1865
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Sailors and passengers indulged in the treacherous delicacy; which seems to have been the sea-clam; and found that these mollusks, like the shell the poet tells of, remembered their august abode, and treated the way-worn adventurers to a gastric reminiscence of the heaving billows.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Sailors and passengers indulged in the treacherous delicacy; which seems to have been the sea-clam; and found that these mollusks, like the shell the poet tells of, remembered their august abode, and treated the way-worn adventurers to a gastric reminiscence of the heaving billows.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Over the past decade, Clem & Ursie's Restaurant in Provincetown drew in crowds with its fresh sushi and sea-clam pie with Portuguese spice.
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Susan Avelar, a board member of the Provincetown Chamber of Commerce, said Clem's was one of only two places left in Provincetown to buy sea-clam pie.
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