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noun - a street urchin
MUDLARK - A mudlark is someone who scavenges in river mud for items of value, a term used especially to describe those who scavenged this way in London during ...
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| a person who scavenges in river mud for objects of value. |
| A pig pork. |
| One who scavenges in river or harbor mud for items of value, especially in London during the Industrial Revolution. Also applies to a person scavenging sewers. A person that begs near a river. (rare) A sewer cleaner. (rare) |
| A child who spends most of their time in the streets especially in slum areas. A child who plays in the mud. Any dirty or unkempt person. |
| Nickname for a soldier of the Royal Engineers. |
| Assorted birds that are found in muddy places or build their nests with mud. Especially Anthus petrosus and Alauda arvensis. |
| The Grallina cyanoleuca that builds its nest with mud into a bowl like shape. |
| A racing horse that performs well on muddy or wet tracks. |
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| A mudlark is someone who scavenges in river mud for items of value, a term used especially to describe those who scavenged this way in London during the late 18th and 19th centuries.Mudlarks would search the muddy shores of the River Thames at low tide for anything that could be sold; and sometimes, when occasion arose, pilfering from river traffic. By at least the late 18th century people dwelling near the river could scrape a subsistence living this way. Mudlarks were usually either youngsters aged between eight and fifteen, or the robust elderly; and though most mudlarks were male, girls and women were also scavengers.Becoming a mudlark was usually a choice dictated by poverty and lack of skills. Work conditions were filthy and uncomfortable, as excrement and waste would wash onto the shores from the raw sewage and sometimes also the corpses of humans, cats and dogs. Mudlarks would often get cuts from broken glass left on the shore. The income generated was seldom more than meagre; |