clam digger
Example Sentences
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Mr. Gay, a bay man and commercial clam digger also known as Captain Phil, has been catering clambakes from Westhampton to Montauk since 1981.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2012
The wooden-legged clam digger, Habakuk Somes, seemed suddenly to have acquired a great interest in Tom Jonah.
From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Hill, Grace Brooks
A small rake, with tines about 10 inches long and a handle of about 2 feet, used by a clam digger on Cape Cod.
From Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 by Schlebecker, John T.
That was his name—Roebuck,” declared the clam digger, solemnly.
From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Hill, Grace Brooks
There was something in the steady look of the latter that caused the shiftless clam digger to dig down into his pocket for the nickel, pay it over, and walk grumblingly out of the store.
From Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper by Cooper, James A.
