They used a little shovel, though a regular clammer uses a short-handled hoe, digging the wet earth away much as a farmer digs away the earth from a hill of potatoes.
Mr. Madden was a clammer and fisherman, and his wife did some work for the summer colonists.
Not improbably Clammer was thinking first of his presence before the multitude, secondly of his batting average and thirdly of the run to be scored.
Lord Chesterfield Clammer paraded to the batter's box and, after gradually surveying the field, as if picking out the exact place he meant to drive the ball, he stepped to the plate.
Reddy Clammer used every possible incident and artifice to bring himself into the limelight.
Whereupon the whole audience roared, and in discomfiture Reddy Clammer went in search of his bat.
The superior Clammerwas not overliked by his co-players.
Babcock hit down the right-field foul line, giving Clammer a long run.
Other retorts followed, which Reddy Clammer deigned not to notice.
Reddy Clammer was a grand-stand player--the kind all managers hated--and he was hitting .
Clammer was carried off the field into the dressing room and a physician was summoned out of the audience.
Gilbat lost the game; Clammer throwed it away again, and now Reddie Ray's due to win it.
Fuller called play then, with Reddy Clammerand Reddie Ray composing the Star outfield.
Clammer started to run with it, not like a grim outfielder, but like one thinking of himself, his style, his opportunity, his inevitable success.
Whereupon Chesty Reddy Clammer proceeded to draw attention to himself, and incidentally delay the game, by assorting the bats as if the audience and the game might gladly wait years to see him make a choice.
Red Gilbat gets on--Reddy Clammer gets on--and then Reddie Ray drives them home or chases them home.
Too ignorant to appreciate the importance of sanitary precaution, the alien clammer haunts the proscribed territory polluted by sewage, and does much to keep the dangerous typhoid germ in active circulation in the community.
This "animal" is nothing more than an elongated clam hoe with a belt attachment, whereby the clammer can "churn" out the clams at a depth of 2 to 3 feet.
This practically discourages clam farming, however profitable, as no clammer is going to the labor and expense of planting clams, if the next person who comes along has a legal right to dig as many as he pleases.
Also, these "seed" clams are so immature that in many cases they have not spawned, and thus the clammer by destroying the clams in this manner damages irrevocably all chances of restocking the flats.
Any clammer of the vicinity is willing to acknowledge that conditions at present are in a very unsatisfactory state.
The outfit of a clammer does not require much outlay of capital.
Practically the only legislation pertaining to it is the law which requires every clammer to have a permit, but even this regulation is but indifferently enforced.
For this purpose facts showing the present extent of the industry have been compiled, with the view of furnishing both the clammerand consumer with certain desirable information.
The quahaug industry of New Bedford was practically annihilated by the law of 1905, which closed the Acushnet River and Clark's Cove to both clammer and quahauger.
A good clammercan obtain from 5 to 6 bushels per tide from these flats.
Thus, when a clammer digs 1 barrel of these clams he is in reality destroying 10 or more barrels.
The most conservative clammer estimates that at the present rate the passing of five years will witness the complete annihilation of the industry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clammer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
