A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example the soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria), the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.

To dig for clams.

A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.

To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.

(obsolete) clammy.

clamminess; moisture

To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. / To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.

(rowing) Alternative form of CLAM

Alternative form of clem (“to starve”)

simple past tense and past participle of clam