Definition of "quahaug" []

• An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America. (scientific name Venus mercenaria) (noun)
• Large clams used in chowders and other clam dishes. (noun)

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• "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."
• "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."
• "a solitary, queer, self-centered old bachelor, a "quahaug," as my fellow-Bayporters called me."