mullock (usually uncountable, plural mullocks)
(now UK dialect) Rubbish, waste matter.
(Australia, New Zealand, mining) Waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc, has been extracted; waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft.
Nonsense, rubbish.
(UK, Yorkshire, dialect) A mess; the result of a blunder.
mullock (third-person singular simple present mullocks, present participle mullocking, simple past and past participle mullocked)
(transitive, mining) To clear waste material out of a mine.
Source: Wiktionary
Mul"lock, n. Etym: [From Mull dirt: cf. Scot. mulloch, mulock, crumb. *108.]
Definition: Rubbish; refuse; dirt. [Obs.] All this mullok [was] in a sieve ythrowe. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 June 2025
(adjective) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; “a square peg in a round hole”; “a square corner”
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