clam

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1. clam - Noun

2. clam - Adjective

3. clam - Verb

Meaning

A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.

Strong pinchers or forceps.

To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.

To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.

Claminess; moisture.

A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.

To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.

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I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.) Brandon Sanderson

Deep inside, I am a shy man. And in the presence of colorful characters, I am a clam. I never try to out-eccentric the eccentricsǃ. Alfred Hitchcock

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all. Don Bluth

I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika. Jim Himes

As a snipe and a clam are entangled in a fight, a fisherman catch them both. Chinese Proverb

There is only one thing harder than looking for a dewdrop in the dew, and that is fishing for a clam in the clam chowder. New England Proverb

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