*muck*

a. & adv. [ Malay amoq furious. ] In a frenzied and reckless manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

To run amuck, to rush out in a state of frenzy, as the Malays sometimes do under the influence of “bhang, ” and attack every one that comes in the way; to assail recklessly and indiscriminately. [ 1913 Webster ]

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Calmuck. A branch of the Mongolian race inhabiting parts of the Russian and Chinese empires; also (sing.), the language of the Calmucks. [ Written also Kalmucks. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. pl. (Ethnol.) See Calmucks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of shaggy cloth, resembling bearskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A coarse, dyed, cotton cloth, made in Prussia. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Abbreviation of Amuck. [ 1913 Webster ]

To run a muck. See Amuck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Icel. myki; akin to D. mög. Cf. Midden. ] 1. Dung in a moist state; manure. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything filthy or vile. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Money; -- in contempt. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fatal muck we quarreled for. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mining) The unwanted material, especially rock or soil, that must be excavated in order to reach the valuable ore; also, the unwanted material after being excavated or crushed by blasting, or after being removed to a waste pile. In the latter sense, also called a muck pile. [ RDH ]

Muck bar, bar iron which has been through the rolls only once. --
Muck iron, crude puddled iron ready for the squeezer or rollers. Knight.
muck pile see muck pile in the vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster +RH ]

a. Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To manure with muck. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. To excavate and remove muck{ 5 }. Often used with out, as, to muck out a round. [ RDH ]

. . . Inco is still much more advanced than other mining companies. He says that the LKAB mine in Sweden is the closest rival. He predicts that, by 2008, Inco can reach a new productivity plateau, doubling the current mining productivity from 3, 350 tonnes to 6, 350 tonnes per person per year. Another aim is to triple the mine cycle rate (the time to drill, blast and muck a round) from one cycle to three complete cycles per 24 hours. https://web.archive.org/web/20010728040054/http://www.canadianminingjournal.com/issues/apr00/page10.asp [ PJC ]

n. [ Sp. mocador. Cf. Mokadour. ] A handkerchief. [ Obs. ] [ Written also muckinder, muckiter, mockadour. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A term of reproach for a low or vulgar labor person. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts. [ Obs. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Construction) An excavating machine designed to remove particulate material from within a confined area, as in a tunnel or mine. [ RDH ]

n. A miser; a niggard. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being mucky. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Mickle. ] Much. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dunghill. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Construction) The broken material at the face of a tunnel being bored, after being crushed by blasting. [ RDH ]

2. (Mining) Muck{ 5 } that has been placed in a spoil area. [ RDH ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. -raked p. pr. & vb. n. -raking ] To seek for, expose, or charge, especially habitually, corruption, real or alleged, on the part of public men and corporations. On April 14, 1906, President Roosevelt delivered a speech on “The Man with the Muck Rake, ” in which he deprecated sweeping and unjust charges of corruption against public men and corporations. The phrase was taken up by the press, and the verb to muckrake, in the above sense, and the noun muckraker, to designate one so engaged, were speedily coined and obtained wide currency. The original allusion was to a character in Bunyan's “Pilgrim's Progress” so intent on raking up muck that he could not see a celestial crown held above him. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A rake for scraping up muck or dung. See Muckrake, v. i., below. [ obs. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A person who habitually muckrakes. [ PJC ]

n. 1. (Zool.) A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure; -- applied to the larvae of the tumbledung and allied beetles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices; a miser. “Misers are muckworms.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]