What is "mucker"

Usage examples of "mucker".

The youthful daimio had taken advantage of the preoccupation of his captors during the last moments of Theriere to gnaw in two the grass rope which bound him to the mucker, and with hands still fast bound behind him had slunk into the jungle path that led toward his village.

You muckers, rig a couple of skoufers to throw muck to bury the base and checkerwork up to the hanging wall.

He might even, though himself a Caucasian, have comprehended the choice such a man felt was facing him: either to give himself up to the crying needs of his own people, who in this 100 STAND ON ZANZIBAR brave new century were still the trapped ones, spawning the majority of the muckers (though the newscasts by policy never mentioned their colour), the majority of the dicties (though most of them couldn't afford Skulbustium or Triptine and poisoned themselves on kitchen-brewed Yaginol or scraped poppy-juice from the slit pods with the backs of dirty knives), the ones who said, "I don't have to ghetto where I'm going because I was born here!

In the fourth stall the visitors are introduced to an assortment of machines operated by former muckers and drillers, which on the one hand give caustic-scoop-moth-degraded materials an additional tearing, subject them to searing heat, and mark them with oil, ink, and wine spots, and on the other hand cut the now fully degraded materials to pattern, line them, and stitch them up.

Our head foreman, the worthy Herr Wernicke, will bear me out when I say that muckers and drillers, who have been working in the mine for twenty years, are inclined to find hell anywhere on the surface, but no proof of hell below ground, not even when the ventilation is poor.

Stabbing the sides of the ditch Where clay gleams yellow, Driving the blades of their shovels Deeper and deeper for the new gas mains Wiping sweat off their faces With red bandanas The muckers work on .

Again the mucker struck his victim--quick choppy hooks that rocked Mallory's head from side to side, and again the brutal blow below the belt.

Like every mucker or miner who had ever helped build a tunnel, he was broke between jobs.

He had also expected to find a few muckers or miners down here in the tunnel.

There was evidence that the miners and muckers who had worked here had walked off the job in a hurry.

Now the miners and the muckers were back in the bore cleaning out the cracked rock and muck.

The foreman took it for granted that one of the two muckers had an attack of the disease now.

Steel-helmeted miners and muckers were grouped around the shaft opening, staring out of horrified eyes at the bucket that had just been raised from the tunnel.

The incidence of muckers continues to maintain its high: one in Outer Brooklyn yesterday accounted for 21 victims before the fuzzy-wuzzies fused him, and another is still at large in Evanston, Ill.

And speaking of muckers: he hadn't really connected with the world he knew when the news reports described one who'd taken out seven victims in Times Square on a busy Saturday night.