mullock

• “Well, aw'll mak a mullock o 'thee i' two minnits if tha doesn't shut up!”

  Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect

• “When your shaft is sunk a few feet, you should begin to log up the top for at least 3 ft. or 4 ft., so as to get a tip for your "mullock" and lode stuff.”

  Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students

• “The "mullock," as he called it, from his hands, and from the bed where it had lain so long, so crusted the little thing which he gave me, that”

  Erema — My Father's Sin

• “The men are hard at work on these hills of "mullock," plying the windlasses by which the stuff is brought up from below, or puddling and washing off "the dirt.”

  A Boy's Voyage Round the World

• “Ah knew tha'd mak a mullock on it when tha started! ”

  Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect

• “The “mullock,” as he called it, from his hands, and from the bed where it had lain so long, so crusted the little thing which he gave me, that I dipped it again in the swelling stream, and rubbed it with both hands, to make out what it was.”

  Erema

• “But her needeth care, or her may all goo away in mullock.”

  Erema

• “Seen nearer at hand, the dun-coloured desert resolved itself into uncountable pimpling clay and mud-heaps, of divers shade and varying sizes: some consisted of but a few bucketfuls of mullock, others were taller than the tallest man.”

  Australia Felix

• “Splashed with red clay until he looked like a terra-cotta image restored to light after concealment under rubbish, steaming with sweat, fluttering with importance, Frank Edward stood still for a moment beside Alec, shovelling away some mullock.”

  Last Leaves from Dunk Island

• “Tolerating no unseemly sights, lank, limp, succulent vegetation sprang up as if by magic on the mullock heaps, as did grey fluffy fungus on damp boots and dripping tucker-bags.”

  Last Leaves from Dunk Island

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