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mucking-machine Hardrock Mining 
n. a mechanical shovel for removing muck (def. 2).
- 1956 Three cars of muck and a mucking machine had been left at the station by the two miners on that level, who had returned to the drift face.
- 1964 Times are changing, and a mucker to-day is the operator not of a muckstick, but of a mechanical shovel known as a mucking-machine.
- 1956 Three cars of muck and a mucking machine had been left at the station by the two miners on that level, who had returned to the drift face.