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 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 Hill, Grace Brooks
“A chist full,” announced the clam digger without a moment’s hesitation.
From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Hill, Grace Brooks
“Well, shipmets,” said the old clam digger, “bein’ peaceful merchantmen, as ye might say, we hadn’t shipped aboard the Spankin’ Sal to fight no pi-rats,” declared Kuk, with energy.
From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Hill, Grace Brooks
“I seed two small gals, shipmet, down on the flats yonder,” said the clam digger, setting down his basket and squatting with the wooden leg stretched out before him.
From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Hill, Grace Brooks
