Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quahog clam when of comparatively small size but larger than a littleneck.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The stone-like seed of a cherry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun small quahog larger than a littleneck.
- noun a half-grown quahog.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria) that is larger than a countneck,
littleneck or topneck but smaller than aquahog (used as a size classification by fish merchants).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a half-grown quahog
- noun small quahog larger than a littleneck; eaten raw or cooked as in e.g. clams casino
- noun the stone seed of a cherry
Etymologies
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Examples
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This when cracked held a cherrystone, inside the cherrystone was a grain of wheat, and in the wheat a millet-seed.
Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 Various 1865
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Ingredients 3 pounds small boiling potatoes or medium sweet potatoes, cut in half 8 quarts littleneck or cherrystone clams 12 ears corn, husks on 2 pounds red or yellow onions, peeled and cut in half 8 quarts mussels, well-rinsed and debearded 12 chicken thighs optional 3 pounds spicy sausage such as chorizo, linguica
Happy as a Clambake Gail Monaghan 2011
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The secret is, I open up two dozen cherrystone clams, for only the juice.
What I Ate Last Night Department - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Aoyagi round clam: The chew and color of the center part of a cherrystone clamwith that same deep-water flavor.
Augieland: 2005
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Aoyagi round clam: The chew and color of the center part of a cherrystone clamwith that same deep-water flavor.
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By the time I was eight I knew the difference between cherrystone and littleneck clams and Manhattan and New England clam chowder.
THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001
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By the time I was eight I knew the difference between cherrystone and littleneck clams and Manhattan and New England clam chowder.
THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001
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One compound was split since joined it suggested an inapposite meaning: cherrystone cherry stone
Space Platform Murray Leinster 1935
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Oxford, nor 'a cherrystone holding ten dozen tortoiseshell combs, made by Edward Gibbons. '
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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There's a fine bakery up front, while the dining area, facing huge, handcrafted ovens, turns out an array of small plates that include a tangy seviche of wild Rhode Island striped bass, thin-crusted pizzas with toppings of Wellfleet cherrystone clams and bacon, mussels cooked in white ale with roasted tomatoes, and a few larger plates, with a mac & cheese of daunting richness that you will fight friends not to have to share it.
unknown title 2011
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