Wincle

Part of speech: noun, verb

Definitions

1. To clean or hollow out by scooping or scraping usually in reference to shellfish or clams; to remove the contents or debris from an enclosed or hollow space; to harvest shellfish by digging or raking from the shore or seabed
2. The act of extracting edible parts from shellfish by opening or scooping the shells; the process of cleansing a cavity or removing sediment from a container; the method of gathering mollusks by digging up from their habitats
3. To scoop out or gather shellfish by raking or digging; to clear or empty a hollow area by scraping; to collect or clean out contents from within a shell or cavity

Etymology: What the meaning itself shows is that the word is tied to hand work on shore or in a hollow: raking or digging out shellfish, or scraping the contents out of a shell or cavity. Those are the core senses a reader can check against any dialect dictionary.

Synonyms: winkle, periwinkle, sea snail