mullocker
/ˈmʌləkə
/noun Australian dated
A person who clears away refuse in a mine: at the age of eighteen, he laboured underground as a mullocker...
- 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.
- A miner and a mullocker died together in 1901 in a fall of rock.
- An accident happened at the mine to one man while working as mullocker.
Origin
Late 19th century: from mullock 'rock from which the minerals have been extracted'.
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