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  • verb Present participle of quahog.

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Examples

  • On Dec. 4, he addressed the previous week's report about a man who went missing while "quahogging" (digging for regional quahog clams), during which it was revealed that the man had been convicted of a sex crime a decade before.

    B&C - Advertising News 2009

  • Next morning, we'd check the oyster beds or go quahogging near the shore, dragging rusty rakes through the gray water.

    The Snotgreen Sea 2010

  • I went back out to the Land Cruiser, completed loading my fishing and quahogging gear, and drove south, inching through the not yet too bad traffic jam in front of the A & P, passing Cannon Ball Park and the cemetery, taking a right on Pease Point Way, and driving on to Katama.

    Death on a Vineyard Beach Philip R.Craig 1996

  • As with quahogging, you can go clamming and think about something else at the same time.

    Death on a Vineyard Beach Philip R.Craig 1996

  • But I didn’t mind the search, since the joys of quahogging do not consist entirely of finding and harvesting them, but also include the lonely pleasure of exploration and occasional discovery, accompanied by a simultaneous and wonderful freeing of the mind to play with subjects other than catching hard-shell clams.

    Death on a Vineyard Beach Philip R.Craig 1996

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