clam digger
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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
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
“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
Mr. Abel Harding, clam digger and fish purveyor, resident in South Wellmouth, acknowledged his identity.
From Galusha the Magnificent by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
Outside, about where the clam digger had stood a few moments before, was the tall, scarred-faced Gypsy tramp that they had seen at the nomads’ camp the day they came to Pleasant Cove!
From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Hill, Grace Brooks