muck

muck is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 6 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.Dung in a moist state; manure. Bacon.
  2. 2.Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.
  3. 3.Anything filthy or vile. Spenser.
  4. 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. 5.Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork.
  6. 6.To manure with muck.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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