knacker's yard vs mullock

knacker's yard

noun
  • The area of a slaughterhouse where carcasses unfit for human consumption or other purposes are rendered down to produce useful materials such as glue. 

  • A (notional) place to send a person or object that is spent beyond all reasonable use. 

mullock

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

  • 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. 

verb
  • To clear waste material out of a mine. 

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