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noun

Muck n.

Dung in a moist state; manure.

Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.

Anything filthy or vile.

Money; in contempt. "The fatal muck we quarreled for."

(Mining) The unwanted material, especially rock or soil, that must be excavated in order to reach the valuable ore; also, the unwanted material after being excavated or crushed by blasting, or after being removed to a waste pile. In the latter sense, also called a muck pile.

Muck bar, bar iron which has been through the rolls only once.

Muck iron, crude puddled iron ready for the squeezer or rollers.

muck pile see muck pile in the vocabulary.

verb

muck v. i. & v. t. To excavate and remove muck (5). Often used with out, as, to muck out a round. "... Inco is still much more advanced than other mining companies. He says that the LKAB mine in Sweden is the closest rival. He predicts that, by 2008, Inco can reach a new productivity plateau, doubling the current mining productivity from 3,350 tonnes to 6,350 tonnes per person per year. Another aim is to triple the mine cycle rate (the time to drill, blast and muck a round) from one cycle to three complete cycles per 24 hours."

muck v. t. To manure with muck.

adjective

muck adj. Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork.

adverb

Muck adv. Abbreviation of Amuck.

To run a muck. See Amuck.

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Etymology of 'Muck'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Muck" Quotes from Famous Books

... liege, I'll never lin, But I will thorough thick and thin, Until at length I bring her in; My dearest lord, ne'er doubt it." Thorough brake, thorough briar, Thorough muck, thorough mire, Thorough water, thorough fire; And ...

— Playful Poems • Henry Morley

... things to cool down. As soon as the muck-rakers wear out their rakes, and the great American public finds some other kind of hysterics to keep it worked up to a proper temperature, I shall mosey back and resume business at the old stand. But why tell you the story of my life? Play fair now, ...

— The Slim Princess • George Ade

... trail, we struck up Bonanza, a small muddy stream in a narrow valley. Down in the creek-bed we could see ever-increasing signs of an intense mining activity. On every claim were dozens of cabins, and many high cones of greyish muck. We saw men standing on raised platforms turning windlasses. We saw buckets come up filled with the same dark grey dirt, to be dumped over the edge of the platform. Sometimes, where the dump had gradually arisen around man and windlass, ...

— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service

... Joe spoke a little sharply. "Our men here are as big as you and I, every one of them. My God! you'll have to pay the price of being a high muck-a-muck, ...

— The Nine-Tenths • James Oppenheim

... to try," said Hockins, with something unusually fierce in his expression. "Many a man has run a-muck before now. I've got to ...

— The Fugitives - The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar • R.M. Ballantyne

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