mud lark

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noun

1

: a person who grubs in mud (as in search of stray bits of coal, iron, rope)

specifically : an urchin who grubs for a living along the tide flats of the English Thames

2

a

dialectal, England : pipit

b

: any of various birds (as the meadowlark or the shoveler) that live in moist places

c

: the Australian magpie lark (Grallina cyanoleuca) that makes mud nests

mudlark

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intransitive verb

: to play, dig, or search in mud or on muddy ground

had been out all the morning sailing cork boats and mudlarking in the marshes

—Crosbie Garstin

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Intransitive verb

mud lark

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