NOUN
- an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians
- Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes
How To Use quahaug In A Sentence
- In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms. Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms
- But the Christmas trade had been good and, thanks to Nathaniel's enterprise and effort, the scallop fishermen, the quahaug rakers, and the members of the life-saving crews were once more buying their outfits at the Metropolitan Store instead of patronizing Mr.J. Cohen and The Emporium. Cap'n Dan's Daughter
- In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms. Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms
- The name quahog (pronounced co-hog), or quahaug, is of American Indian derivation.
- If those two had not met I should not be writing this to-day, I might not be writing at all; instead of having become a Bayport "quahaug" I might have been the Lord knows what. Kent Knowles: Quahaug
- a solitary, queer, self-centered old bachelor, a "quahaug," as my fellow-Bayporters called me. Kent Knowles: Quahaug
- She seemed a little relieved, I thought, but when _I_ asked questions she shut up like a quahaug. Fair Harbor
- There were errands to look after, and usually a pig, and sometimes two, that accumulated adipose on purslane and lamb's-quarters, with surplus clams for dessert, also quahaugs to preserve the poetic unities. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
- I should have been fearful that she was not happy, that she was already repenting her rashness in promising to marry the Bayport "quahaug," but occasionally she looked at me, and, whenever she did, the wireless message our eyes exchanged, sent that quahaug aloft on a flight through paradise. Kent Knowles: Quahaug
- I thought probably you had gone to dig another quahaug. Galusha the Magnificent