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单词 mullocker
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Definition of mullocker in English:

mullocker

noun ˈmʌləkə
Australian dated

  • A person who clears away refuse in a mine.

    at the age of eighteen, he laboured underground as a mullocker
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A miner and a mullocker died together in 1901 in a fall of rock.
    • During the war many truckers and mullockers were kept on their jobs longer than would normally have been the case.
    • Mr Williams, who was a mullocker, went underground yesterday morning with other day-shift men, and should have left the mine again at 3 o'clock.
    • An accident happened at the mine to one man while working as mullocker.
    • Work was so abundant and several hundred more miners, labourers, and mullockers could easily be placed.

Origin

Late 19th century: from mullock 'rock from which the minerals have been extracted'.
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