mudlark / ˈmʌdˌlɑrk /

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mudlark 的 2 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. Chiefly British. a person who gains a livelihood by searching for iron, coal, old ropes, etc., in mud or low tide.
  2. Chiefly British Informal. a street urchin.
  3. either of two black and white birds, Grallina cyanoleuca, of Australia, or G. bruijni, of New Guinea, that builds a large, mud nest.
v. 无主动词 verb
  1. to grub or play in mud.

更多mudlark例句

  1. As a lad I slept with the rats, held horses, swept crossings and lived like a mudlark!
  2. You wade along in this way step by step, like a mudlark at Portsmouth Hard, hoping gradually to regain the surface.
  3. This was Captain Abersouth, formerly of the Mudlark—as good a seaman as ever sat on the taffrail reading a three volume novel.
  4. So I shipped as mate on the Mudlark, bound from London to wherever the captain might think it expedient to sail.
  5. 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.