Found 1 items, similar to muck pile.
English → English (gcide) Definition: muck pile Muck \Muck\, n. [Icel. myki; akin to D. m["o]g. Cf. Midden.] 1. Dung in a moist state; manure. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps. [1913 Webster] 3. Anything filthy or vile. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 4. Money; -- in contempt. [1913 Webster] The fatal muck we quarreled for. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] 5. (Mining) The unwanted material, especially rock or soil, that must be excavated in order to reach the valuable ore; also, the unwanted material after being excavated or crushed by blasting, or after being removed to a waste pile. In the latter sense, also called a muck pile. [RDH] Muck bar, bar iron which has been through the rolls only once. Muck iron, crude puddled iron ready for the squeezer or rollers. --Knight. muck pile see muck pile in the vocabulary. [1913 Webster +RH] muck pile \muck" pile`\ (m[u^]k" p[imac]l`), n. 1. (Construction) The broken material at the face of a tunnel being bored, after being crushed by blasting. [RDH] 2. (Mining) Muck[5] that has been placed in a spoil area. [RDH]