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mud-rat Placer Mining, Slang, Obs.

• n. a person who removes muck (def. 1 or 2).

  See also: muck (def. 1 or 2)  mucker (def. 1)  

  • 1910  Turning the windlass over the shaft was a little tough mud-rat, who excited in me the liveliest sense of aversion.