The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mullock \Mul"lock\, n. [From Mull dirt: cf. Scot. mulloch, mulock, crumb. [root]108.] Rubbish; refuse; dirt. [Obs.]
All this mullok [was] in a sieve ythrowe.
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now UK dialect English) rubbish, waste matter. 2 (context Australia New Zealand mining English) waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted; waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft. 3 nonsense, rubbish.
Wikipedia
Mullock may refer to:
- John T. Mullock (1807–1869), Roman Catholic bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland
- Julia Mullock (born 1928), disputed member of the Korean Imperial Household
- Richard Mullock (1851–1920), Welsh sporting administrator and official
- Mullock may also refer to waste tailings from metal ore mining.
Usage examples of "mullock".
And now, excited by the near prospect of comparative rest and freedom, I exulted in the idea of exchanging the red--lined roads and yellow mullock heaps, the iron or wooden shanties, the sombre shadeless forest, amid which I had sojourned so long, for the cool streets, the lofty freestone walls, the massed flower thickets, and the unfamiliar luxuries of the City of the Sea.
Rounding a mullock heap, she beheld the white whippet from the cottage of the Caidens.