Mullock

Well, aw'll mak a mullock o 'thee i' two minnits if tha doesn't shut up! ❋ John Hartley (1877)

When your shaft is sunk a few feet, you should begin to log up the top for at least 3 ft. or 4 ft., so as to get a tip for your "mullock" and lode stuff. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The "mullock," as he called it, from his hands, and from the bed where it had lain so long, so crusted the little thing which he gave me, that ❋ Unknown (1862)

The men are hard at work on these hills of "mullock," plying the windlasses by which the stuff is brought up from below, or puddling and washing off "the dirt." ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)

Ah knew tha'd mak a mullock on it when tha started! " ❋ John Hartley (1877)

The “mullock,” as he called it, from his hands, and from the bed where it had lain so long, so crusted the little thing which he gave me, that I dipped it again in the swelling stream, and rubbed it with both hands, to make out what it was. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

But her needeth care, or her may all goo away in mullock. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

Seen nearer at hand, the dun-coloured desert resolved itself into uncountable pimpling clay and mud-heaps, of divers shade and varying sizes: some consisted of but a few bucketfuls of mullock, others were taller than the tallest man. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Splashed with red clay until he looked like a terra-cotta image restored to light after concealment under rubbish, steaming with sweat, fluttering with importance, Frank Edward stood still for a moment beside Alec, shovelling away some mullock. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Tolerating no unseemly sights, lank, limp, succulent vegetation sprang up as if by magic on the mullock heaps, as did grey fluffy fungus on damp boots and dripping tucker-bags. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"I'm all of a mullock [1], it's no use denying --" ❋ Edward Woodley Bowling (N/A)

This was a mining town called Fig Tree Mount – why, nobody could tell, for there were no fig trees, and not a sign of a hill as far as the level horizon – except for the heaps of refuse mullock that showed where shafts had been sunk. ❋ Unknown (1915)

The black boy leaped to the back-seat, and in a moment the buggy swerved by the bullock-dray that was drawn up a little further down the road, and the excited horses galloped past the nineteen public houses and the zinc-roofed shanties, past the new quarter of tents and whirring machinery, past the deserted shafts and desolate mullock heaps, then way out along the sandy wheel-track into the unpopulated Bush. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Without the quiver of a nerve I swung down their deepest shafts in the big bucket on the end of a rope attached to a rough windlass, which brought up the miners and the mullock. ❋ Miles Franklin (1916)

A-dealin'-stoush 'n' mullock to the Prussian flamin 'Guard. ❋ Edward Dyson (1898)

Downy dropped from the slabs placed across from drive to drive into the bottom, and going on his knees threw aside the lumps of mullock indicated by the boy. ❋ Edward Dyson (1898)

"I was in a bit o 'a mullock," Private James Akroyd's letter went on, ❋ Frederic William Moorman (1895)

Also, many are shared with Australian English ( 'mob' (of sheep etc.), 'mullock'), largely as a consequence of the common colonial experience of the two countries. ❋ Penny Griffith (1885)

As he sat and watched and thought, eight or ten members of his company came and crouched near him, gazing with hungry eyes at the heaps of mullock and the mounds of tailings surrounding the "Ever Victorious" battery, watching the Europeans at work, and wondering when they, too, would give it up and follow their departed comrades. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)

"Well, here's another bit o 'my luk," he sed; "this is another mullock aw've getten into, soa aw mun get aght on it someway; it's noa use freeatin 'abaat what cannot be helped, an' ther's one consolation, it mud ha 'been war." ❋ John Hartley (1877)

[That guy] [Scott] is a Mullock. ❋ Josh Tipton (2003)

That mans [mullock] makes me want to kill myself. I'm not sure if its alive or dead, but it looks like a rotten [coyote] [pelt] hanging from his neck. ❋ OCCTOOLROOM (2010)

[Hey man], [Keep] you Mullock out of my [soup]. ❋ KO2P1 (2008)