mullock

Word origin

From mull + -ock.

Used in a sentence

• “He stopped and took up a handful of mullock. The stones clattered on the coffin; the mud remained in his hand.”

• “On certain days, when hot currents shimmered off Oyster's Reef, we would detect the chalk-dust of the mullock heaps, acrid; or, from the opal mines themselves, the ghastly fug of the tunnels and shafts.”

• “The company is considering a site at Mandurang Valley and two others near its mine in Kangaroo Flat, south-west of Bendigo, for a mullock heap that could reach 21 metres over 25 years.”

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