clam-digger
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "[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, […]"
- "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.”"