What does "muck" mean?
Muck: Dung in a moist state; manure. Bacon.
Additional senses
- 2.Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.
- 3.Anything filthy or vile. Spenser.
- 4.Money; -- in contempt. The fatal muck we quarreled for. Beau. & Fl. Muck bar, bar iron which has been through the rolls only once. -- Muck iron, crude puddled iron ready for the squeezer or rollers. Knight.
- 5.Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork.
- 6.To manure with muck.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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