| 单词 | muck-shifting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmuck-shifting muck-shifting n. the process of moving large quantities of soil and rock during civil engineering work; earth moving; the work of a muck-shifter. ΚΠ 1939 Muck Shifter Sept. 5/1 The Muck-Shifting Industry is carrying a full share of the work imposed by the War. 1967 G. F. Fiennes I tried to run Railway vi. 63 Muck shifting is easy nowadays. 1970 Daily Tel. 5 Nov. 13/6 The whole ‘muck-shifting’ industry changing the shape of the landscape is experimenting all the time with bigger, and sometimes better, machines. 1980 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Mar. 173/2 All those Stone Age hill forts must have been splendid muck-shifting contracts in their time! 1983 D. Sullivan Navvyman vii. 55 Some navies seem to have switched from tiger-work, to pick-work, to muck-shifting without damaging their pride too much. < as lemmas |
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