What is "clamdigger"

n. One who digs for clams.

The word clamdigger is an American term which can mean:

• People who engage in clam digging
• An American term for a fashion style of 3/4 length pants (3/4 length trousers) for women
• The Clamdigger, a commuter train operated in several incarnations by the New Haven Railroad and later Amtrak
• Daniella Dabrowski (1991) is an American make-up artist and hair-stylist working in the New York Metropolitan Area under the pseudonym "Clamdigger."

Clamdigger is a bronze sculpture by Willem de Kooning. It may have been inspired by "the men who dug for clams along the beaches" near his home in East Hampton, New York. It has been described as one of his "extraordinarily tactile figurative sculptures" that "seemed pulled from the primordial ooze," and "as part man, part creature of the mud and the shallows."

The sculpture was modeled in clay in 1972, and cast in bronze in 1976. It was his "first large-scale bronze work."

As of 2014, Clamdigger is on display in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

De Kooning, known for his abstract expressionist paintings, took up sculpture later in his career, after a 1969 visit with a friend in Italy "who had a small foundry."

The Clamdigger was a daily passenger train which ran along the Northeast Corridor during the 1970s. The train had two iterations: from 1898 to 1972 it was a local commuter service under the New Haven Railroad, Penn Central, and Amtrak between New London and New Haven, while from 1976 to 1978 it was a long-distance commuter service operated by Amtrak from Providence to New Haven. In 1978, it was canceled and replaced with the Beacon Hill.

The Shore Line East service, run by the Connecticut Department of Transportation, currently runs from New London to New Haven, serving many of the same stops as the two incarnations of the Clamdigger.