Read full poem →The fruit-carts and clam-carts were ribald as a fair,
(Pink nets and wet shells trodden under heel)
Dictionary Entry
A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example the soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria), the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species. The name is said to
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Common Phrases
chowder clam. clamshell clamshells clamjuice clamsauce clamclam giantclam hard
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Poetry examples for “clam”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Whom friends and fortune quite disown!
Ill satisfied keen nature’s clam’rous call,
Stretch’d on his straw he lays himself to sleep,
Read full poem →Shrinks at the hated task, for thy destruction.
When summon'd by the sultan's clam'rous fury,
We ask'd, with tim'rous tongue, th' offender's name,
Read full poem →The boatmen and clam-diggers arose early and stopt for me,
I tuck’d my trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time;