quohog


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quohog

(ˈkwəʊˌhɒɡ)
n
(Cookery) a variant form of quahog
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They first caught crabs and quohogs in the sand; grown bolder, they waded out with nets for mackerel; more experienced, they pushed off in boats and captured cod; and at last, launching a navy of great ships on the sea, explored this watery world; put an incessant belt of circumnavigations round it; peeped in at Behring's Straits; and in all seasons and all oceans declared everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that has survived the flood; most monstrous and most mountainous!
my lads, do spring --slap-jacks and quohogs for supper, you know, my lads --baked clams and muffins --oh, do, do spring --he's a hundred barreler --don't lose him now --don't oh, don't!
In about 1978 she was converted to a clam dredger for the surf clam, Spisula solidissima, and ocean quohog, Artica islandica, fishery in the mid Atlantic, and also fished as a trawler for horseshoe crabs, Limulus polyphemus.