The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word WINKLE
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More clues leading to the result WINKLE
- Edible gastropod to gather right away
- Blink and ogle, carrying choice item of footwear
- Shellfish you and I caught in Kuala Lumpur
- Turn a blind eye, possibly, to the French shellfish
- The French going after instant sea food
- Get beast to go uphill
- It’s a minor problem extracting right shellfish
- Gastropod with half a shoe?
- Land, having hoofed one back, edible shellfish
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What does WINKLE mean?
WINKLE noun- A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae.
- Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculata and Busycon carica.
- The penis, especially that of a boy rather than that of a man.
- To extract.