单词 | quahogging |
释义 | quahoggingn. U.S. regional (New England). The action or practice of digging for or harvesting quahogs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing for type of fish > [noun] > for shellfish > for others clamming1636 cockling1790 periwinkling1841 five-fingering1889 winkling1898 ormering1903 quahogging1905 1905 J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide iv. 76 How's the quahaugin' nowadays? 1950 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 21 Mar. 13/1 (headline) Illegal quahogging in Seaconnet charged. Newport County shellfish body will ask state to halt practice. 1989 J. Casey Spartina (1990) 6 His puny income from lobstering and quahogging. 2006 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl. (Nexis) 14 July c6 The Browns settled in Rhode Island, where quahogging was a healthy industry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1905 |
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