'muck pile' definitions:
Definition of 'muck pile'
From: GCIDE
- 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 +RDH]
Definition of 'muck pile'
From: GCIDE
- 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]