Found 2 items, similar to clam.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: clam
clam
v : gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean
[also:
clamming,
clammed]
clam
n 1: burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud
2: a piece of paper money worth one dollar [syn:
dollar,
dollar bill
,
one dollar bill,
buck]
3: flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams
[also:
clamming,
clammed]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Clam
Clam
\Clam\ (kl[a^]m), n. [Cf.
Clamp,
Clam, v. t.,
Clammy.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially
those that are edible; as, the long clam (
Mya arenaria),
the quahog or round clam (
Venus mercenaria), the sea
clam or hen clam (
Spisula solidissima), and other
species of the United States. The name is said to have
been given originally to the
Tridacna gigas, a huge East
Indian bivalve.
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You shall scarce find any bay or shallow shore, or
cove of sand, where you may not take many clampes,
or lobsters, or both, at your pleasure. --Capt. John
Smith (1616).
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Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a
cockle; it lieth under the sand. --Wood (1634).
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2. (Ship Carp.) Strong pinchers or forceps.
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3. pl. (Mech.) A kind of vise, usually of wood.
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Blood clam. See under
Blood.
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Clam
\Clam\ (cl[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Clammed; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Clamming.] [Cf. AS. cl[ae]man to clam, smear; akin
to Icel. kleima to smear, OHG. kleimjan, chleimen, to defile,
or E. clammy.]
To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
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A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they
cloyed and clammed Themselves till there was no getting
out again. --L'Estrange.
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Clam
\Clam\, v. i.
To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. [R.] --Dryden
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Clam
\Clam\, n.
Claminess; moisture. [R.]
“The clam of death.” --Carlyle.
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Clam
\Clam\, n. [Abbrev. fr. clamor.]
A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime
at once. --Nares.
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Clam
\Clam\, v. t. & i.
To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to
clang. --Nares.
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