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muck-stick Hardrock Mining, Slang 
n. a shovel.
- 1958 Dan, you move more dirt with a mid-iron than you ever did with a muck stick.
- 1963 The last I saw of him he was drunk and on a muck stick (shovel).
- 1958 Dan, you move more dirt with a mid-iron than you ever did with a muck stick.