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'.
- out of time
- out of touch
- out-of-town
- out-of-towner
- out of true (or the true)
- out of truth
- out of turn
- out of whack
- out of work
- out on a limb
- out (or down) for the count
- out-over
- outpace
- out-paint
- outparcel
- out-parish
- outpart
- outpass
- outpatient
- out-pension
- outpensioner
- outperform
- outperformance
- outperformer
- outpitch