mucking

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They followed the same mucking-out practice three times every week.

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  1. noun A moist sticky mixture, especially of mud and filth.
  2. noun Moist farmyard dung; manure.
  3. noun Dark fertile soil containing decaying vegetable matter.
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  • Then Umlaut finished the mucking, dumped the last of it into the oubliette, went to another basin of water, washed, and donned his mostly dry clothes. —  Up In A Heaval
  • After milking and mucking, we pulled down a couple of bales of hay from the loft and broke them open for the cows. —  FTITLESF,Apr2004
  • This Beautiful City (Vineyard Theatre), human fallibility has a way of mucking up even the loftiest scenery. —  Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
  • They've got some real goopers mucking up the works over there in the Republican party. dmac March 3rd, 2009 at 7: 16 pm —  Firedoglake
  • On a less productive day, I do lots of mindless stuff (mowing, weed whacking, mucking, etc.) while trying to figure out what's not working in the story. —  Midnight Moon Cafe
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