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- noun
Waders ; rubber pants (including oversized boots) worn when wading in shallow water, especially when digging forclams with a clam rake. - noun A kind of
trousers for women, short in length and often calledcapri pants
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The island instead became populated by small farmers, oystermen-residents still call themselves "clamdiggers" - and the Hellgate Pilots, who guided ships from Long Island Sound through the straits alongside Ward Island.
The Big Apple 2008
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To this day, natives are called clamdiggers, while those with, say, a quarter-century on the island earn the apparently coveted sobriquet mussel-sucker.
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Natives are called "clamdiggers," and those who leave-for college, marriage or a fling at the outside world-usually come back.
The Big Apple 2008
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Nadal's biggest endorsement deal is with Nike, which has tried to make money on Nadal by moving him out of his customary clamdiggers and sleeveless shirts.
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Nadal's biggest endorsement deal is with Nike, which has tried to make money on Nadal by moving him out of his customary clamdiggers and sleeveless shirts.
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The first stop was a class at the Open Center taught by the inspirational guru Julia Cameron, author of "The Artist's Way," the last before she moves back to Taos, N.M. The expansive room was filled with men wearing clamdiggers and strappy sandals and women carrying rucksacks.
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Nadal's biggest endorsement deal is with Nike, which has tried to make money on Nadal by moving him out of his customary clamdiggers and sleeveless shirts.
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Lieberman best keep a suitcase packed with linen suits and clamdiggers, that open Ambassadorship to The Maldives awaits disloyalty.
It's Official: Lieberman Keeps Homeland Security Chairmanship 2009
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Photo of Irish clamdiggers, 1882, is from the National Archives.
Archive 2008-11-01 doyle 2008
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Photo of Irish clamdiggers, 1882, is from the National Archives.
End of the season doyle 2008
treeseed commented on the word clamdiggers
Calf-length slacks for women, popular in the 1960s
Also called capris, petal pushers
February 2, 2008
skipvia commented on the word clamdiggers
These were also popular in the 50s for boys due to a brief national infatuation with calypso music (and Harry Belafonte in particular.) They had fake rope belts and stripes down the outside of the leg. I have some embarrassing pictures of myself in them on the first day of school in about 1958. And no, I won't share them...
March 14, 2008
reesetee commented on the word clamdiggers
But skipvia--now that you've mentioned it and all....
*waiting to see skipvia in clamdiggers c. 1958*
March 14, 2008