mullock

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a harsh region. mullock: the tailings left after gold has been removed.

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  1. Rubbish; refuse; dirt; dung. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] The mullok on an hepe ysweped was. Chaucer, Prol. to Canon's Yeoman's Tale, l. 385. The Ethiopians gather together … a great deal of rubbeshe and mullocke. Fardle of Facions (1555), vi. (Cath. Ang.)
  2. In mining, rubbish; attle; mining refuse; that which remains after the ore has been separated. [Australia.]
  3. A blundered piece of business; a mull or mess. [Provincial English]

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  • All the stuff' that we drive out we throw away, except about six inches on the top where the gold lies, so that the quantity of mullock, as we call it, or useless material hoisted out is very great. —  The Lifeboat
  • Eh! but he do write bad; t' words is fair tum'lin' ower one anuther I was in a bit o' a mullock," Private James Akroyd's letter went on, "t' last time we were i' t' trenches; 'twern't mich to tell abaat, but 'twere hot while it lasted. —  More Tales of the Ridings
  • Aw've had nowt to do wi' th' orderation o' this mullock, an' if ther's owt lost aw'll pay for it. —  Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
  • What this little thing is ne'er a body may tell, in my line of life--but look'th aristocratic 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 — My Father's Sin
  • Used as a description of such a harsh region mullock: the tailings left after gold has been removed. —  Children of the Bush
 

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  1. Early modern English also mollocke, from Middle English mullok, diminutive of mul, mulle, dust: see mull and -ock.
  2. mullock, n.
 

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