As soon as firing was started at the face, the heading was completely blocked, and operations there had to be suspended until the mucking was nearly completed.
The use of the conveyor made it possible to continue muckingat the face while the bottom plates of the iron lining were being put in place, and resulted in a material increase in the rate of progress.
The shields would then usually move parallel to the grade line, though this was modified considerably by the way the mucking was done and by the stiffness of the ground at the bottom of the shield.
Mucking out the shield was in progress when the soft clay started flowing again and forced its way back into the tunnel for a distance of 20 ft.
When mucking by hand, the muckinggangs consisted of from 15 to 20 men.
The work was generally arranged so that the heavy mucking shift alternated in the two tunnels, the two engines being worked there and a single engine in the other tunnel.
Look at your watch again and curse the mucking hombre de negocios who's holding up your big deal.
By tomorrow morning I'll have at least twenty mucking bastards in the calabozo thanks to what's in these papers; twenty fascist snakes who are the eyes and the ears and the oil and the water of the Nazi subs in this part of the ocean.
Gob, that puts the bloody kybosh on it if old sloppy eyes is mucking up the show.
Late that afternoon they turned to a new duty,--that of mucking away the dirt and rotted logs from a place that once had been impassable.
Every morning at day-break he had been up and cooking, after breakfast he had gone to the mine; and, between mucking out the tunnel and putting in new shots, the weeks had passed like days.
Yet if Drusilla was silent it was not from despair for in the morning as Denver was mucking out his tunnel he heard her clear voice mount up like the light of some bird.
I can't compose my speech with you mucking around.
You, if I may remind you without wounding your feelings, fell into the error of mucking about with psychology in connection with this Fink-Nottle, and the result was a wash-out.
Casey did not make any reply to that, but picked up his shovel and went to work again, mucking out the dirt and broken rocks which the dynamite had loosened in the cut.
She came, in the course of two hours or so, to the lip of the canyon, and who-whooed to Casey, mucking out after a shot he had put down in the location hole.
Where there was any large quantity of soft ground in the roof, the timber gang was much larger than shown in Table 11, and was helped by the mucking gang.
The drillers did most of the mucking out of the heading before setting up the drills.
F--Time between completion of mucking and putting in first plate, spent in shoving the jacks back.
The time taken to shove in silt varied greatly with the quantity of material taken in; for shoving and mucking combined, it averaged 66 min.
Take, for instance, a driller working with a steam drill in fairly even rock, with no marked obstacles in his way and with very little mucking to do.
If the cost of mucking is included in the cost of drilling, as it frequently is, the true index of how well the drills are getting on is the number of feet per drill hour, rather than the cost of the operation to the contractor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mucking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
