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mucking

[′mək·iŋ]

(engineering)

Clearing and loading broken rock and other excavated materials, as in tunnels or mines.

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JB is also still known to go straight from his early morning mucking out sessions to his presenting roles on BBC's Songs of Praise and Cbeebies children's show Down on the Farm.

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Skills demonstrated at the annual games include operating a pneumatic drill called a jackleg, a hammer-and-chisel type drill called a single jack or hand steel and the swede saw, commonly called the bow saw; mucking, which is also known as shoveling, plus mine surveying, gold panning and track standing, which requires contestants to erect a section of railroad track.

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The Mucking site is an archaeological dig of about 44 acres and 400 structures near Mucking in southern Essex.

Lives in Land: Mucking Excavations by Margaret and Tom Jones, 1965-1978: Prehistory, Context and Summary

this new series, presented by Amanda GiVe a peT a hoMe (iTV, Wednesday, 8pm) w In this new series, presented by Amanda Holden, pictured, a team of famous faces will be mucking in (and mucking out) at newbrook Farm Animal Centre in Birmingham, caring for mistreated and abandoned creatures.

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"While plenty of people would probably quite enjoy the sight of a warden mucking out a particularly smelly cage, they'd be less thrilled to find they're picking up the tab."

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It has helped horse lover Mandy launch her equine care company Muck Out, providing essential care, grooming, exercise and mucking out services to horse owners.