mudlark

/muhd-lahrk/US // ˈmʌdˌlɑrk //UK // (ˈmʌdˌlɑːk) //

泥鳅,泥丸子,泥鳅岛,泥丸

Definitions

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.
- : Chiefly British Informal. a street urchin.
- : 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

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