English Dictionary

mullock

名詞

イギリス英語 方言 不可算名詞 通常 オーストラリア英語 ニュージーランド英語 ヨークシャー方言

(now UK dialect) Rubbish, waste matter. / (Australia, New Zealand, mining) Overburden: waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft.

日本語の意味

廃棄物、不要なごみ（特に英国の方言における意味） / 鉱業における採掘時に発生する余分な覆土や瓦礫（オーストラリア・ニュージーランドでの意味）

The old shed was full of mullock that had been left there for years.

古い小屋は何年も放置されたごみでいっぱいだった。

意味（1）

(now UK dialect) Rubbish, waste matter.

意味（2）

(Australia, New Zealand, mining) Overburden: waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft.

意味（3）

(Australia, New Zealand, mining) Tailings: waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted.

The gold, both in the quartz and mullock, is very fine, and, owing to the soft and ferruginous nature of the stuff, specks can but very rarely be seen during working.

意味（4）

Nonsense, rubbish.

意味（5）

(UK, Yorkshire, dialect) A mess; the result of a blunder.

For when they saw awr Mary, / They made a mullock on it, / For they thowt 'at all them flaars / Had been put on Mary's bonnet.

mullocks （ plural ）