That was the beginning of a long acquaintance, cultivated sometimes by day, more often by night; sometimes alone, when I would catch one of the family fishing or Clamming or grubbing roots or nest robbing; sometimes with a boy, who caught two of the family in his traps; and again with the hunters under the September moon, when some foxy old coon would gather a freebooter band about him and lead them out to a raid on the corn-fields.
"A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories"
William Long
This lad here,' pointing to Mr. Penrose, 'giz us a twothree crumbs betimes; but some on us, I con tell yo', are fair Clamming for th' bread o' life.
"Lancashire Idylls (1898)"
Marshall Mather
Of course one may go Clamming and fishing in a light overcoat, but-one doesn't.
"Kent Knowles: Quahaug"
Joseph C. Lincoln