Usually means: Waste material from mining operations.
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  1. mullock: Merriam-Webster
  2. mullock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mullock: Collins English Dictionary
  4. mullock: Wordnik
  5. mullock: Wiktionary
  6. mullock: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Mullock, mullock: Dictionary.com
  8. Mullock: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. mullock: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Mullock: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. mullock: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. mullock: FreeDictionary.org
  13. mullock: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. mullock: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. mullock: Encyclopedia

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  1. mullock: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Mullock: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (mullock)

noun:  (now UK dialect) Rubbish, waste matter.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand, mining) Mining waste or ore processing waste:
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand, mining) Overburden: waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand, mining) Tailings: waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted.
noun:  Nonsense, rubbish.
noun:  (UK, Yorkshire, dialect) A mess; the result of a blunder.
verb:  (transitive, mining) To clear waste material out of a mine.

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