Crossword-Solution: QUAHOGS 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

And clams and quahogs, scallops, too, A layin' close at hand A waitin' and a longin' To be dug from out the sand." "My word, Edna, you make my mouth water! "On page 11 you say that no Canadian lynx or wild cat has been seen on the Cape for 100 years.

Lobsters are selling at 33 cents for live chicken, 35 cents for large live and 40 cents for large boiled, soft-shell crabs at $1 a dozen, little necks at 30 cents a dozen or $1.75 a peck, clams at 30 cents a quart shucked or 50 cents in the shell by the peck, and quahogs at 60 cents a quart shucked.

Hard-shelled clams—called quahogs and pronounced as ko-hogs by Cape Codders—were and are harvested in deep water with wooden-handled rakes up to 56 feet in length.

While on the Cape, you will hear about “mussels,” “steamers,” “quahogs,” and “little necks.” What are the differences? =Mussels=, which are dark blue oblongs about 2½ inches long, are found in groups attached to rocks or pilings.

Quahogs are dug with a wide-toothed rake, or scratcher, primarily along the Cape Cod Bay shoreline at low tide and in the shallows of Nauset Bay and Pleasant Bay.