muck-stick

Hardrock Mining, Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a shovel.

Quotations

1958

Dan, you move more dirt with a mid-iron than you ever did with a muck stick.

1963

The last I saw of him he was drunk and on a muck stick (shovel).