Quahaug

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun An American market clam (Venus mercenaria). It is sold in large quantities, and is highly valued as food. Called also round clam, and hard clam.

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quahaug
(Montauk Indian, quauhaug.) In New England, the popular name of a species of clams, having a round a...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.