culch vs mullock

culch

noun
  • Junk or debris. 

  • The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds. 

  • An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use. 

verb
  • To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments; to sort shellfish or fish catch by size -- most often oysters -- so as to throw back the smallest to grow bigger and breed. 

adj
  • Location where potentially useful junk items are collected: culch corner, culch drawer, culch pile. 

mullock

noun
  • Rubbish, waste matter. 

  • Tailings: waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted. 

  • Nonsense, rubbish. 

  • A mess; the result of a blunder. 

  • Overburden: waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft. 

verb
  • To clear waste material out of a mine. 

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