"clam digger" meaning in English

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          "text": "I provided myself with a stick, sharpened at the end like a clam digger, and half a nut to scoop the dirt with.",
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          "ref": "2002 December, Katherine Johnson, “Working the Swikshak Beach”, in Buried Dreams: The Rise and Fall of a Clam Cannery on the Katmai Coast (NPS D-87), [Anchorage, Alas.]: Katmai National Park and Preserve, →OCLC, page 56:",
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          "text": "As how to best use it I gave that a lot of thought and decided to invest in buying a work skiff and set of bull raking gear and became a bull raker, a clam digger, I would be outdoors, on the water, be my own boss, have a very flexible work schedule but most of all I would be able to take care of my kids.",
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