Topical Guide 668
Mark Dorset
Tools: Clam Tongs
What a Piece of Work I Am, Chapter 10:
Her father didn’t look up from his work. He was standing at the chopping block in the kitchen, repairing one of his clam tongs, trying to straighten the steel fingers by whacking them with the backside of a hatchet.
Monterey Fish Market, “Shellfish Harvesting Techniques”:
See also:
Clamboats of Babbington, Some TG 31; Clamboats: Morphology and Aesthetics of TG 49
Clamdiggers TG 21
Clamming TG 21; Clamming: Methods of TG 21
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