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Definition of Clambakes
1. clambake [n] - See also: clambake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clambakes
Literary usage of Clambakes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1901)
"To my surprise, I found these clambakes on the top of the mountain ridges. ...
Heavy stone mortars are found about these clambakes, or camps, which appear ..."
2. Transactions of the Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science, Kansas Academy of Science Meeting (1901)
"To my surprise, I found these clambakes on the top of the mountain ridges. ...
Heavy stone mortars are found about these clambakes, or camps, which appear ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1883)
"Tale (The) of the clam : an historical reminiscence of Rhode Island, explaining
the true origin of clambakes, by two Providence boy? ..."
4. A Week in New York by Ernest Ingersoll (1891)
"The country fishing hamlets of Bellport, Fireplace (a favorite spot for aboriginal
clambakes, tradition asserts), Moriches, and Speonk, where you strike the ..."
5. Appleton's Dictionary of Greater New York and Its Neighborhood (1884)
"clambakes.—Among the purely American dainties are clams baked in wood-ashes, ...
Excursions to Rhode Island, where clambakes are popularly supposed to have ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"We had a prolonged confab about clams and clambakes. The discussion closed with
the remark by him, " what a heap o' shekels I could have made in early days, ..."
7. Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt (1913)
"He organizes clambakes and chowder parties and picnics, and is consulted by the
local labor leaders when a cut in wages is threatened. ..."
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