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
“Now, ain’t that wonderful—jest wonderful?” declared the clam digger, smiting his knee with his palm.
From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Grace Brooks Hill
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 James A. Cooper
The dog had a brooding eye upon the clam digger, who sat on a broken lobster trap a few feet away.
From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Grace Brooks Hill
"And, Billy,—'fore ye go ashore, jump into the yawl and take a look at that snatch block on the spar buoy,—that clam digger may want it 'fore night."
From The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women by Francis Hopkinson Smith
