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Answer for the clue "(United States) a piece of paper money worth one dollar ", 4 letters:
clam

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n. burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud a piece of paper money worth one dollar [syn: dollar , dollar bill , one dollar bill , buck ] flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams [also: clamming , clammed ]

Usage examples of clam.

Yes, that was true, but Sorcor had still been opposed, for there was little more to Askew than sand and rocks and clams.

We had sea turtle, caguama, cooked in its shell with an odd spicy sauce, and bacha, the giant clam with the sweet, firm meat, broiled just enough.

Pavilion Key and arrange for a clammer to take them home, up Chatham River.

They used a little shovel, though a regular clammer uses a short-handled hoe, digging the wet earth away much as a farmer digs away the earth from a hill of potatoes.

In and out they went, over the course, now and then pausing to speak some clammer, but getting no information, save in one or two instances.

The trident was returned to the customer who either ate his prize raw on the spot or took his clam shell to one of the cookery booths.

They collected what shells they could find but only the coquina clams were plentiful on the beach.

Miss Violette Shumberger names twelve dozen cherry-stone clams as the second course, and Joel Duffle says two gallons of Philadelphia pepper-pot soup as the third.

Joel Duffle is one of these rough-and-tumble eaters that you can hear quite a distance off, especially on clams and soups.

Marcella and Victor called out the names of every fish in sight, about fifty in all: iridescent sardines and anchovies flashing silver and turquoise, flying fish with pointed beaks and snails creeping nowhere in their glossy spotted shells, tiny gray shrimp jumping like crickets and huge blue shrimp too stately to move, clams with shells bearing Navajo designs and scallops as small as aspirins, delicate flatfish for grilling or frying and bony striped fish for soup or risotto, diamond-shaped turbot and broad fans of skate, ink-stained cuttlefish, octopus, squid.

Xanadu Station is to study the rudist clams that make up the reefs surrounding us.

Marcella cooked the little clams for the spaghettini and the vegetables for the monk-fish, a savory recipe from her third book.

Italian place on Third near La Brea, an old-fashioned chianti-bottles-dangling-from-the ceiling taverna, ordered veal marsala and spaghetti with clams and slices of spumoni for dessert.

Erik suspected Manfred could crunch clams without even bothering to open them.

I had ever eaten, so I chose them for an appetizer, while Johnny got both Ls the baked clams and the seafood salad for himself.