quagmiry (kwagmiri)

[ gy. [Rare.] They had twenty wigwams, hard by a most hideous swamp, so thick with bushes and so quagmiry as men could hardly crowd into it. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 279. quahog, quahaug (kwa-hog', -hag'), n . [Also co hog, cohaug, cohauk , quohog , quo quog , etc.; Ind. (Narragansett) poquau hock.] The large edible round clam of the Atlantic coast of the Quahog (Venus mercenaria). United States, Venus mercenaria , much used for soups and chowders. See clam3, and cut under dimy arian.-Blood-quahog, the young or a small specimen of various species of Arcidæ, or ark-shells; a bloody clam or hair-clam. [Narragansett Bay.]