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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

clam
    n 1: burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell
         closes with viselike firmness
    2: a piece of paper money worth one dollar [syn: dollar,
       dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, clam]
    3: flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams
    v 1: gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Clam \Clam\, v. i.
   To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. [R.] --Dryden
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Clam \Clam\, n.
   Claminess; moisture. [R.] "The clam of death." --Carlyle.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Clam \Clam\, n. [Abbrev. fr. clamor.]
   A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime
   at once. --Nares.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Clam \Clam\, v. t. & i.
   To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to
   clang. --Nares.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Clam \Clam\ (kl[a^]m), n. [Cf. Clamp, Clam, v. t.,
   Clammy.]
   1. (Zool.) 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.
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            You shall scarce find any bay or shallow shore, or
            cove of sand, where you may not take many clampes,
            or lobsters, or both, at your pleasure. --Capt. John
                                                  Smith (1616).
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            Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a
            cockle; it lieth under the sand.      --Wood (1634).
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   2. (Ship Carp.) Strong pinchers or forceps.
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   3. pl. (Mech.) A kind of vise, usually of wood.
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   Blood clam. See under Blood.
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7. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Clam \Clam\ (cl[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clammed; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Clamming.] [Cf. AS. cl[ae]man to clam, smear; akin
   to Icel. kleima to smear, OHG. kleimjan, chleimen, to defile,
   or E. clammy.]
   To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
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         A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they
         cloyed and clammed Themselves till there was no getting
         out again.                               --L'Estrange.
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8. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)

CLAM

    A system for symbolic mathematics,
   especially General Relativity.  It was first implemented in
   ATLAS assembly language and later Lisp.

   See also ALAM.

   ["CLAM Programmer's Manual", Ray d'Inverno & Russell-Clark,
   King's College London, 1971].

   (1994-11-08)

Thesaurus Results for Clam:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Chilopoda, Chordata, Dungeness crab, Echiuroidea, Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, Japanese crab, Laconian, Monoplacophora, Nemertinea, Phoronidea, Spartan, angle, bait the hook, blue point, bob, coquillage, crab, crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, dap, dib, dibble, drive, fish, fly-fish, gig, go fishing, grig, guddle, jack, jacklight, jig, laconic, langouste, limpet, littleneck clam, lobster, mussel, net, oyster, periwinkle, prawn, quahog, scallop, seine, shellfish, shrimp, snail, soft-shell crab, spin, steamer, still-fish, torch, trawl, troll, whale, whelk

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