clam

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

The popular name of a very common shell-fish. "As happy as a clam at high water," is a very common expression in those parts of the coast of New England where clams are found.

Many sorts of fishes are caught on the coast; lobsters, crabs, clams, limpits, and periwinkles.--Fordyce, Statistics of Scotland.

Tak thee a fiddle, or a flute to jest,

Thy clouted cloak, thy scrip and clam-schells,

Cleik on thy cross, and fair on into France.

Kennedy, Evergreen, p. 74.

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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.