mud-rat

Placer Mining, Slang, Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a person who removes muck (def. 1 or 2).

See: muck(def. 1 or 2),mucker(meaning 1)

Quotations

1910

Turning the windlass over the shaft was a little tough mud-rat, who excited in me the liveliest sense of aversion.