mucking-machine

Hardrock Mining

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a mechanical shovel for removing muck (def. 2).

See: mucker(meaning 2)

Quotations

1956

Three cars of muck and a mucking machine had been left at the station by the two miners on that level, who had returned to the drift face.

1964

Times are changing, and a mucker to-day is the operator not of a muckstick, but of a mechanical shovel known as a mucking-machine.