mullocker

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mullock +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

mullocker (plural mullockers)

  1. (New Zealand, mining) A worker who clears waste material from a mine.
    • 1920, The New South Wales Industrial Gazette, volume 17, page 106:
      This clause shall be satisfied as to such of the employees as are contract miners, or fillers, or truckers, or mullockers, by adding 1s. to the amount which they are to be respectively set to earn.
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