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Muck   /mək/   Listen
noun
Muck  n.  
1.
Dung in a moist state; manure.
2.
Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.
3.
Anything filthy or vile.
4.
Money; in contempt. "The fatal muck we quarreled for."
5.
(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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Muck" Quotes from Famous Books



... night you brought the wallet. Still I did not understand. It was when I heard the lift door and knew you had gone forever that I understood. Loved you with all my heart, with all that poor old Stefani had fashioned out of muck and clay. If you held my head to your heart, if that is my blood there—Do you, can you ...
— The Drums Of Jeopardy • Harold MacGrath
... for the mounted men, and Harry and Dalton at last dismounted and led their horses. The division made slow progress and as they struggled on the battle deepened. Now and then as they toiled through the muck they saw long masses of blue infantry on a ridge, and with them the batteries of great guns which the gunners of the North knew so well ...
— The Scouts of Stonewall • Joseph A. Altsheler
... had some gratifying quality, because he repeated it. Then he stood up and repeated it again. "The fool I have been!" he cried; and now speech was coming to him. He tried this sentence with expletives. "Ass!" he went on, still warming. "Muck-headed moral ass! I ...
— Ann Veronica • H. G. Wells
... yards away. A soft glutinous muck, worse than the outer swamp, tugged at his ankles. Corrupt fungi-growth and giant spiked ferns reached far above him in the ...
— One Purple Hope! • Henry Hasse
... to de wall, sar," cautioned my guide; "dere am a gutter in de middle ob de road, and if you steps into dat you go in ober your shoes in muck." ...
— A Pirate of the Caribbees • Harry Collingwood


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