muck pile

2 definitions found

muck pile - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Muck \Muck\, n. [Icel. myki; akin to D. m["o]g. Cf. Midden.]
     1. Dung in a moist state; manure. --Bacon.
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     2. Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp
        places and swamps.
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     3. Anything filthy or vile. --Spenser.
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     4. Money; -- in contempt.
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              The fatal muck we quarreled for.      --Beau. & Fl.
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     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.
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     Muck bar, bar iron which has been through the rolls only
        once.
  
     Muck iron, crude puddled iron ready for the squeezer or
        rollers. --Knight.
  
     muck pile see muck pile in the vocabulary.
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  muck pile \muck" pile`\ (m[u^]k" p[imac]l`), n.
     1. (Construction) The broken material at the face of a tunnel
        being bored, after being crushed by blasting.
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     2. (Mining) Muck[5] that has been placed in a spoil area.
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