clam-digger

plural clam-diggers

1. alternativeAlternative form of clamdigger.

   For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam-digger and a salmon-fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed.

   1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter VI, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 118

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   [T]here was no funeral cortege, naturally, there being no mourners other than myself and Mr. Spitzer and the old, clammish clam-digger chauffeur who drove the rickety Packard with the storm curtains and roof through which the rain fell, […]

   1965, Marguerite Young, chapter 82, in Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, volume 2, Normal, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, published 1993, →ISBN, page 1183

   His father made a living as a clam-digger. For some reason, probably out of his own feelings of low status, he kept telling young Vincent: “You’re a dummy! You’ll never amount to anything more than a clam-digger’s son.”

   1996, Martin Pable, “Man: Created in God’s Image”, in The Quest for the Male Soul: In Search of Something More, Notre Dame, Ind.: Ave Maria Press, →ISBN, page 25