Usually means: Person scavenging for items, mud.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. mudlark: Merriam-Webster
  2. mudlark: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mudlark: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Mudlark: Wordnik
  5. mudlark: Wiktionary
  6. mudlark: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. mudlark: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. mudlark: Dictionary.com
  9. Mudlark (album), Mudlark (bird), Mudlark (disambiguation), Mudlark, The Mudlark: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. mudlark: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. Mudlark: World Wide Words

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MUDLARK, MUDLARK, MUDLARK: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mudlark: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (mudlark)

noun:  (slang, now rare) A pig; pork.
noun:  (now rare, chiefly historical) One who scavenges in river or harbor mud for items of value, especially in London.
noun:  A child who plays in the mud; a child that spends most of its time in the streets, a street urchin.
noun:  (slang) A soldier of the Royal Engineers.
noun:  (UK, regional) Any of various birds that are found in muddy places or build their nests with mud, especially Anthus petrosus and Alauda arvensis.
noun:  (Australia) The Grallina cyanoleuca that builds its nest with mud into a bowl-like shape.
noun:  A racehorse that performs well on muddy or wet tracks.
verb:  (intransitive) To scavenge in river or harbor mud for items of value.

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