Definition of Mucking

1. Verb. (present participle of muck) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mucking

1. muck [v] - See also: muck

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mucking

muckerer
muckerers
muckering
muckers
mucket
muckety-muck
muckety muck
muckety mucks
muckheap
muckheaps
muckhill
muckier
muckiest
muckily
muckiness
mucking (current term)
mucking in
mucking up
muckland
mucklands
muckle
muckled
muckles
muckling
muckluck
mucklucks
muckmidden
muckmiddens
muckology
muckrake

Literary usage of Mucking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catskill Water Supply of New York City: History, Location, Sub-surface by Lazarus White (1913)
"The machine, if capable of mucking out the heading in a few hours, ... A tunnel with a mucking machine must be run on a different basis from that ordinarily ..."

2. Index of Mining Engineering Literature: Comprising an Index of Mining by Walter Richard Crane (1912)
"Tramming and mucking TRAMMING AND mucking IN THE ROOSEVELT TUNNEL. M. & M., vol. ... 1 column THE mucking PROBLEM IN TUNNELS. See METHODS OF TUNNELING. ..."

3. Modern Tunneling by David William Brunton, John Allen Davis, John Vipond Davies (1922)
"HERRICK, RL, "mucking Problems in Tunnels," Min. and Min., Vol. XXX, p. ... Discusses the merits of each type of shovel for mucking work. ..."

4. A Digest of the Law of Scotland: With Special Reference to the Office and by Hugh Barclay, Scotland (1855)
"WARE of the sea belongs to the proprietor inf'eft with that privilege, or in possession, " for mucking and ..."

5. The Catskill Water Supply of New York City: History, Location, Sub-surface by Lazarus White (1913)
"The machine, if capable of mucking out the heading in a few hours, ... A tunnel with a mucking machine must be run on a different basis from that ordinarily ..."

6. Index of Mining Engineering Literature: Comprising an Index of Mining by Walter Richard Crane (1912)
"Tramming and mucking TRAMMING AND mucking IN THE ROOSEVELT TUNNEL. M. & M., vol. ... 1 column THE mucking PROBLEM IN TUNNELS. See METHODS OF TUNNELING. ..."

7. Modern Tunneling by David William Brunton, John Allen Davis, John Vipond Davies (1922)
"HERRICK, RL, "mucking Problems in Tunnels," Min. and Min., Vol. XXX, p. ... Discusses the merits of each type of shovel for mucking work. ..."

8. A Digest of the Law of Scotland: With Special Reference to the Office and by Hugh Barclay, Scotland (1855)
"WARE of the sea belongs to the proprietor inf'eft with that privilege, or in possession, " for mucking and ..."

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