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mullock

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Rubbish, waste matter.
  2. noun Mining waste or ore processing waste: Overburden: waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft. Tailings: waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted.
  3. noun Overburden: waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft.
  4. noun Tailings: waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted.
  5. noun Nonsense, rubbish.
  6. noun A mess; the result of a blunder.
  7. verb To clear waste material out of a mine.

Similar words

mull sculsh muckmidden muck garble rubbage dust rubbish scunge cultch

Often followed by

heaps heap and was bm et had at

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