The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word CLAM
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More clues leading to the result CLAM
- Bivalve left in river
- One’s reluctant to open up seafood
- Banker round loch finding shellfish
- Oddly cold arms
- Shellfish — 100 pounds a thousand
- Mollusc rising with difficulty out of sea
- Outcry putting off our reticent person
- Person who won’t talk about escape in America
- Loud noise lacking in our reticent person
- Learner in academic stream is secretive type
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What does CLAM mean?
CLAM noun- A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example the soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria), the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
- Strong pincers or forceps.
- A kind of vise, usually of wood.
- A dollar (usually used in the plural).
- A Scientologist.
- A vagina.
- One who clams up; a taciturn person, one who refuses to speak.
- To dig for clams.
- A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
- To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
- Clamminess; moisture
- To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
- To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
- Clammy.
- Acronym of Clip-on Load Adjusting Mechanism. A device that can be fitted onto an oar to adjust set.