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mudlark
[ muhd-lahrk ]
noun
- Chiefly British. a person who gains a livelihood by searching for iron, coal, old ropes, etc., in mud or low tide.
- Chiefly British Informal. a street urchin.
- either of two black and white birds, Grallina cyanoleuca, of Australia, or G. bruijni, of New Guinea, that builds a large, mud nest.
verb (used without object)
- to grub or play in mud.
mudlark
/ ˈmʌdˌlɑːk /
noun
- slang.a street urchin
- (formerly) one who made a living by picking up odds and ends in the mud of tidal rivers
- slang.a racehorse that runs well on a wet or muddy course
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As a lad I slept with the rats, held horses, swept crossings and lived like a mudlark!
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You wade along in this way step by step, like a mudlark at Portsmouth Hard, hoping gradually to regain the surface.
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This was Captain Abersouth, formerly of the Mudlark—as good a seaman as ever sat on the taffrail reading a three volume novel.
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So I shipped as mate on the Mudlark, bound from London to wherever the captain might think it expedient to sail.
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On the voyage of which I write he had taken no cargo at all; he said it would only make the Mudlark heavy and slow.
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